| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index. |
| Summary |
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 cultural space for themselves on the contested streets of Port-au-Prince, individually. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Street children -- Haiti -- Port-au-Prince.
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Street children. |
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Haiti -- Port-au-Prince. |
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Port-au-Prince (Haiti) -- Social conditions.
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Sociology, Urban -- Haiti -- Port-au-Prince.
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Sociology, Urban. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kovats-Bernat, J. Christopher. Sleeping rough in Port-au-Prince. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2006 0813030099 (DLC) 2006049838 (OCoLC)70483897 |
| ISBN |
9780813040011 (electronic book) |
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0813040019 (electronic book) |
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0813030099 |
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9780813030098 |
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