Ebook {Epub PDF} At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil by Tobias Hecht

 · by. Tobias Hecht. · Rating details · 82 ratings · 9 reviews. 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 /5. Children, Youth and Environments Vol. 14 No. 2 () ISSN: At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil Tobias, Hecht (). Cambridge: Cambrige University Press; pages. $ ISBN Tobias Hecht has made a significant contribution in his book, At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil; as. English. xi, pages: 24 cm. Based on innovative fieldwork among street children and activist organizations in Brazil's Northeast, 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 cramped favela shacks - there are in fact so few. At the center of this book are children who play, steal, sleep, User Interaction Count:

Tobias Hecht (born 18 February ) is an American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator.. Hecht was born in Seattle, www.doorway.ru received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology in from the University of Cambridge, and was the winner of the Margaret Mead Award, for his book At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil, an innovative study of street children in. Tobias Hecht is a writer, editor, and literary translator with a background in social anthropology. In his first book, At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil, he writes to debunk the commonly held beliefs related to the lives of street children, particularly those in Brazil. Through in-depth research and visits to the. Tobias Hecht is the author of At Home in the Street ( avg rating, 83 ratings, 9 reviews, published ), After Life ( avg rating, 33 ratings, 3.

Tobias Hecht. Cambridge University Press, - Social Science - pages. 0 Reviews. Through innovative fieldwork and ethnographic writing, Hecht lays bare the received truths about the. Children, Youth and Environments Vol. 14 No. 2 () ISSN: At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil Tobias, Hecht (). Cambridge: Cambrige University Press; pages. $ ISBN Tobias Hecht has made a significant contribution in his book, At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil; as. English. xi, pages: 24 cm. Based on innovative fieldwork among street children and activist organizations in Brazil's Northeast, 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 cramped favela shacks - there are in fact so few. At the center of this book are children who play, steal, sleep, dance, and die in the streets of a Brazilian city.