ISBN:
9780812216226
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (320 p)
Series Statement:
Contemporary Ethnography
Series Statement:
Contemporary Ethnography Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Shelter Blues : Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless
DDC:
305.569
Keywords:
Homeless persons ; Mental health ; United States
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Homeless persons ; Services for ; United States
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Homeless persons ; United States
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Homelessness ; Psychological aspects
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United States ; Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Abstract:
"Beautifully crafted, powerfully illustrated with conversation, theoretically important, and almost unique as an ethnography."--Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Beauty and the Street -- Alice Weldman's Concerns -- Rethinking Experience -- Struggling Along -- A Critical Phenomenology -- Questions of Shelter -- Five Coefficients -- A Crazy Place to Put Crazy People -- The Sea of Tranquility -- Too Much -- Beautiful Ruins -- Framing the Homeless -- Sensory (Dis)Orientations -- The Walls -- Roots to Earth -- On the Basketball Court -- Smoking and Eating and Talking -- Displacement and Obscurity -- A Physics of Homelessness -- Hearing Voices -- Holding It Together -- Taking Meds -- The Street -- Secondness to Firstness -- Pacing My Mind -- The Give and Take -- Stand Away -- Ragtime -- Who?-What's Your Name?" -- We're Losing Him, Sam -- Reasonable Reasonableness -- Tactics, Questions, Rhetoric -- Epistemologies of the Real -- Reactivity -- The Office of Reason -- Figure, Character, Person -- How to Do Things with Feeling -- Architectures of Sense -- Bodies with Organs -- With Your Head Tilted to the Side -- Pacing the Labyrinth -- Appendix: List of Shelter Residents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover ""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; """"Beauty and the Street""""; ""Alice Weldman's Concerns""; ""Rethinking Experience""; ""Struggling Along""; ""A Critical Phenomenology""; ""Questions of Shelter""; ""Five Coefficients""; """"A Crazy Place to Put Crazy People""""; ""The Sea of Tranquility""; """"Too Much""""; ""Beautiful Ruins""; ""Framing the Homeless""; ""Sensory (Dis)Orientations""; ""The Walls""; ""Roots to Earth""; ""On the Basketball Court""; ""Smoking and Eating and Talking""; ""Displacement and Obscurity""; ""A Physics of Homelessness""; ""Hearing Voices""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Holding It Together""""Taking Meds""; ""The Street""; ""Secondness to Firstness""; ""Pacing My Mind""; ""The Give and Take""; ""Stand Away""; ""Ragtime""; """"Who?-What's Your Name?"" ""; """"We're Losing Him, Sam""""; ""Reasonable Reasonableness""; ""Tactics, Questions, Rhetoric""; ""Epistemologies of the Real""; ""Reactivity""; ""The Office of Reason""; ""Figure, Character, Person""; ""How to Do Things with Feeling""; ""Architectures of Sense""; ""Bodies with Organs""; ""With Your Head Tilted to the Side""; ""Pacing the Labyrinth""; ""Appendix: List of Shelter Residents""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Acknowledgments""""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index ""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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