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Reckoning with homelessness

Author: Kim Hopper
Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Series: Anthropology of contemporary issues.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kim Hopper
ISBN: 0801440688 9780801440687 0801488346 9780801488344
OCLC Number: 50243332
Description: x, 271 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Anthropology of contemporary issues.
Responsibility: Kim Hopper.

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