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"It must be some kind of experiment or something, to see how long people can live without food, without shelter, without security."--Homeless woman in Grand Central StationKim Hopper has dedicated his career to trying to address the problem of homelessness in the United States. In this pow...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hopper, Kim (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Series:Anthropology of contemporary issues.
Subjects:
Homeless persons > United States.
Homelessness > United States.
Poor > United States.
Poor families > United States.
Sans-abri > États-Unis.
Familles pauvres > États-Unis.
Itinérance > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Poor families
Homeless persons
Homelessness
Poor
Armut
Obdachlosigkeit
Sans-abri.
Pauvreté
Famille.
United States
USA
États-Unis.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • This business of taking stock
  • Unearned keep : from almshouse to shelter in New York City
  • Streets, shelters, and flops : an ethnographic study of homeless men, 1979-1982
  • The airport as home
  • Out for the count : the census bureau's 1990 s-night enumeration
  • Homelessness and African American men
  • Negotiating settlement : advocacy for the homeless poor in the United States, 1980-1995
  • Limits to witnessing : from ethnography to engagement.

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