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At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil

At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil

Hecht, Tobias

Paperback

AnthropologyPoverty & Social WorkSouth American History

ISBN10: 0521598699
ISBN13: 9780521598699
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 13 1998
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Through innovative fieldwork and ethnographic writing, Hecht lays bare the received truths about the lives of Brazilian street children. This book changes the terms of the debate, asking not why there are so many homeless children in Brazil but why - given the oppressive alternative of home life in the shantytowns - there are in fact so few. Speaking in recorded sessions that participants called radio workshops, street children asked one another questions that even the most experienced researchers would be unlikely to pose. At the center of this study are children who play, steal, sleep, dance, and die in the streets of a Brazilian city. But all around them figure activists, politicians, researchers, home children, and a global crisis of childhood.

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