Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince
Author | : J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
ISBN-10 | : 0813033020 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780813033020 |
Rating | : 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Download or read book Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince written by J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 and collectively playing a vital role in Haiti's civic life as they shape their own complex political, economic, and cultural identities"--Back cover.