Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti
by J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat
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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, relevant witness, and active agent of social change. Refuting the commonplace notion that street children are unsocialized, Hobbesian mongrels, the author finds these children adopt strategies to carve a social and show more cultural space for themselves on the contested streets of Port-au-Prince, individually and collectively show lessTags
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Read this in my introductory anthropology class my first year at Grinnell
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J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat is assistant professor of anthropology at Muhlenberg College.
Common Knowledge
- Important places
- Caribbean Region; Haiti; Hispaniola; Port-au-Prince, Haïti
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- Genres
- Anthropology, Nonfiction, Sociology
- DDC/MDS
- 362.74 — Social sciences Social problems and social services Social problems of and services to groups of people Child welfare At-risk children and youth
- LCC
- HV875.58 .H22 .P674 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Protection, assistance and relief Special classes Children Destitute, neglected, and abandoned
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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