At Home in the Street Street Children of Northeast Brazil

Name: At Home in the Street Street Children of Northeast Brazil
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ISBN: 9780521598699

ISBN-10: 0521598699

ISBN-13: 9780521598699

Edition: 1998

Authors: Tobias Hecht

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This book examines the lives of Brazilian street children, 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 so few.

Book details

List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/13/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction



Speaking of the street



Being in the street



'Home' children: nurtured childhood and nurturing childhood



Betraying motherdom: Maloqueiros and `that life' in the street



When life is nasty, brutish and short: violence and street children



Curing street children, rescuing childhood



Street children and their `clients', conclusion: the ephemeral lives of street children


Appendix: the setting: Recife, Olinda, and Northeast Brazil


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