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The Bridge People. Daily Life in a Camp of the Homeless.
Jackson Underwood
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Description for The Bridge People. Daily Life in a Camp of the Homeless.
Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
This book is about the daily life of a group of homeless people who live in camps under some freeway bridges in downtown Los Angeles. It is what is called a narrative ethnography, that is, it consists primarily of what the author said to them and what they said to him. As a research project in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA, Underwood documented conversations with these homeless people for two and one half years. The ethnography unfolds in chronological order to allow the reader to learn about the Bridge People the way the author didóone day ... Read more
This book is about the daily life of a group of homeless people who live in camps under some freeway bridges in downtown Los Angeles. It is what is called a narrative ethnography, that is, it consists primarily of what the author said to them and what they said to him. As a research project in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA, Underwood documented conversations with these homeless people for two and one half years. The ethnography unfolds in chronological order to allow the reader to learn about the Bridge People the way the author didóone day ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780819189615
SKU
V9780819189615
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About Jackson Underwood
Jackson Underwood is Research Anthropologist, Adaptation of the Homeless Mentally Ill Project, Department of Psychiatry, UCLA.
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