Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince : An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti


J. Christopher. Kovats-Bernat
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
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Gainesville : : UPF, , 2006.
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1 online resource (257 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Table of Contents ix; List of Illustrations xi; List of Tables xii; Preface xiii; List of Abbreviations xvii; Introduction 1; Ti Amos 19; 1 Salon Pèp: Street Life and Society in Port-au-Prince 24; Bèl Marie 63; 2 Ritus Ruptus: The Street as a Site of Passage 68; Blak Lovli 79; 3 Zenglendinaj e Arimaj: The Street-Child "Problem" and the Paramilitary Solution 83; Michel 105; 4 Violenz Lari: The Violence of the Street Economy from Below 108; Tifrè 142; 5 Lafanmi Selavi: "The Family Is Life" 144; Dezalin 179; 6 Aprè Dans, Tanbou Lou: After the Dance, the Drum Is Heavy 183. - 7 All That We Know: The Poorest Countries and the State of the World 195Notes 213; Bibliography 217; Index 225. - 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
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0813030099

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