Reckoning with homelessness /

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Author / Creator:Hopper, Kim.
Imprint:Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Description:x, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:The anthropology of contemporary issues
Anthropology of contemporary issues.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4825336
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ISBN:0801440688 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801488346 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-268) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Classification and History
  • 1.. This Business of Taking Stock
  • 2.. Unearned Keep: From Almshouse to Shelter in New York City
  • Part II. Fieldwork and Framework
  • Introduction: Ethnography in the Annals of Homelessness
  • 3.. Streets, Shelters, and Flops: An Ethnographic Study of Homeless Men, 1979-1982
  • 4.. The Airport as Home
  • 5.. Out for the Count: The Census Bureau's 1990 S-Night Enumeration
  • 6.. Homelessness and African American Men
  • Part III. Advocacy and Engagement
  • 7.. Negotiating Settlement: Advocacy for the Homeless Poor in the United States, 1980-1995
  • 8.. Limits to Witnessing: From Ethnography to Engagement
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index