books by Philippe Bourgois (incarcerated antropologia anthropology)

books by Philippe Bourgois

books:

En quête de respect : Le crack à New York (French Edition)
Philippe Bourgois

Seuil, 2001

"You can't do nothing in this damn place": sex and intimacy among couples with an incarcerated male partner.: ...
Megan Comfort, Olga Grinstead, ...

Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Inc., 2005

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Righteous Dopefiend (California Series in Public Anthropology)
Philippe Bourgois, Jeffrey Schonberg

University of California Press, 2009

This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen 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 labor. Righteous Dopefiend interweaves stunning ...

Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines
Philippe Bourgois, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, ...

The University of Chicago Press, 2002

Since its founding in the nineteenth century, social anthropology has been seen as the study of exotic peoples in faraway places. But today more and more anthropologists are dedicating themselves not just to observing but to understanding and helping solve social problems wherever they occur—in international aid organizations, British TV studios, American hospitals, or racist enclaves in Eastern Europe, for example. In Exotic No More , an ...

Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Philippe I. Bourgois

Blackwell Publishing, 2003

From Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil” to Joseph Conrad’s “fascination of the abomination,” humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of anthropology’s most passionate voices on this subject, Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology is the only book of its kind available: a single volume exploration of social, literary, and philosophical theories of violence. Brings together a sweeping ...

In Search of Respect
Philippe Bourgois

Cambridge University Press, 1999

Great condition for 1999 book - tiny curl on upper right corner. Quick ship - help me afford the spring semester of grad school!

In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)
Philippe Bourgois

Cambridge University Press, 2002

Philippe Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim when it was first published in 1995. For the first time, an anthropologist had managed to gain the trust and long-term friendship of street-level drug dealers in one of the roughest ghetto neighborhoods--East Harlem. This new edition adds a prologue describing the major dynamics that have altered life on the streets of East Harlem in the ...

Drugs, Alcohol, and Social Problems (Understanding Social Problems: An SSSP Presidential Series)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003

Drugs, Alcohol, and Social Problems, a collection edited James D. Orcutt and David R. Rudy, includes 14 clearly written articles that exemplify the best of sociological scholarship on drug and alcohol problems. The readings strike a balance between constructionist, epidemiological, and ethnographic approaches to the study of drinking, drug use, and related problems such as domestic violence, crime, and the spread of HIV/AIDS. A general ...

Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological Examination

AltaMira Press, 2004

This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal that in light of prevailing social inequalities, health policies may intend to protect public health, but in fact they often represent significant structural threats to the health and well being of the poor, ethnic minorities, women, and other subordinate groups. The volume focuses on the 'anthropology of policy,' which is ...