Sleeping rough in Port-au-Prince : an ethnography of street children and violence in Haiti /

In this ethnographic analysis of the cultural lives of children who are "sleeping rough" in Port-au-Prince, Kovats-Bernat expands the traditional bounds of anthropological thought, which have only recently permitted a scholarly treatment of "the child" as a valuable informant, re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kovats-Bernat, J. Christopher (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 2006.
Temas:
Street children > Haiti > Port-au-Prince.
Sociology, Urban > Haiti > Port-au-Prince.
Enfants de la rue > Haïti > Port-au-Prince.
Sociologie urbaine > Haïti > Port-au-Prince.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
Social conditions.
Sociology, Urban.
Street children.
Kinderen.
Thuislozen.
Geweld.
Enfants de la rue > Haïti > Port-au-Prince (Haïti)
Sociologie urbaine > Haïti > Port-au-Prince (Haïti)
Port-au-Prince (Haiti) > Social conditions.
Port-au-Prince (Haïti) > Conditions sociales.
Haiti > Port-au-Prince.
Haïti.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Table of Contents ix; List of Illustrations xi; List of Tables xii; Preface xiii; List of Abbreviations xvii; Introduction 1; Ti Amos 19; 1 Salon Pèp: Street Life and Society in Port-au-Prince 24; Bèl Marie 63; 2 Ritus Ruptus: The Street as a Site of Passage 68; Blak Lovli 79; 3 Zenglendinaj e Arimaj: The Street-Child "Problem" and the Paramilitary Solution 83; Michel 105; 4 Violenz Lari: The Violence of the Street Economy from Below 108; Tifrè 142; 5 Lafanmi Selavi: "The Family Is Life" 144; Dezalin 179; 6 Aprè Dans, Tanbou Lou: After the Dance, the Drum Is Heavy 183.
  • 7 All That We Know: The Poorest Countries and the State of the World 195Notes 213; Bibliography 217; Index 225.

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