At Home in the Street : Street Children of Northeast Brazil
by
Tobias Hecht
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521591325
ISBN-13
9780521591324
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 13th, 1998
Print length
279 Pages
Weight
54 grams
Product Classification:
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnographyChild welfare
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This book lays bare the received truths about the lives of Brazilian street children.
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 they called ''radio workshops'', street children asked one another questions that even the most experienced researcher would be unlikely to pose. At the center of this study are the children who play, steal, sleep, dance and die in the streets of a Brazilian city. But all around them figure activists, politicians, researchers and a global crisis of childhood.
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