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Reckoning with homelessness

Title
Reckoning with homelessness / Kim Hopper.
Author
Hopper, Kim.
Publication
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.

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Description
x, 271 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
The anthropology of contemporary issues
Uniform Title
Anthropology of contemporary issues.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-268) and index.
Contents
Pt. I. Classification and History -- 1. This Business of Taking Stock -- 2. Unearned Keep: From Almshouse to Shelter in New York City -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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.
ISBN
  • 0801440688 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0801488346 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002011089
OCLC
  • ocm50243332
  • SCSB-8856359
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries