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Reckoning with homelessness /

Hopper, Kim.

Reckoning with homelessness / Kim Hopper. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003. - x, 271 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - The anthropology of contemporary issues .

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-268) and index.

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.

0801440688 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0801488346 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2002011089


Homeless persons--United States.
Homelessness--United States.
Poor--United States.

HV4505 / .H665 2003

305.5/69