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Author Bourgois, Philippe I., 1956-

Title Righteous dopefiend / Philippe Bourgois, Jeff Schonberg.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.9084 B667r 2009    ---  Available
Description 359 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series California series in public anthropology ; 21
California series in public anthropology ; 21.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-343) and index.
Contents Introduction: a theory of abuse -- Intimate apartheid -- Falling in love -- A community of addicted bodies -- Childhoods -- Making money -- Parenting -- Male love -- Everyday addicts -- Treatment -- Conclusion: critically applied public anthropology.
Summary This study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. The authors followed a social network of heroin injectors and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary, panhandling, recycling and day labour.
Subject Drug addicts -- United States -- Social conditions.
Drug addicts -- United States -- Economic conditions.
Homeless persons -- Drug use -- United States.
Marginality, Social -- United States.
Added Author Schonberg, Jeff, 1967-
ISBN 9780520254985 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520230880 (alk. paper)
0520230884 (alk. paper)
0520254988 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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