At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521598699)

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 that participants called "radio workshops," street children asked one another questions that even the most experienced researchers would be unlikely to pose. At the center of this study are children who play, steal, sleep, dance, and die in the streets of a Brazilian city. But all around them figure activists, politicians, researchers, "home" children, and a global crisis of childhood.

Author: Tobias Hecht
ISBN-10: 0521598699
ISBN-13: 9780521598699
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/13/1998
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/15/1998