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Author Bourgois, Philippe I., 1956-

Title Righteous dopefiend / Philippe Bourgois, Jeff Schonberg.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]
©2009

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  362.293 BOURGOIS    Check Shelf
Description 359 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series California series in public anthropology ; 21.
California series in public anthropology ; 21.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-343) and index.
Contents Introduction: a theory of abuse -- Intimate apartheid -- Falling in love -- A community of addicted bodies -- Childhoods -- Making money -- Parenting -- Male love -- Everyday addicts -- Treatment -- Conclusion: critically applied public anthropology.
Subject Drug addicts -- United States -- Social conditions.
Drug addicts -- United States -- Economic conditions.
Homeless persons -- Drug use -- United States.
Marginality, Social -- United States.
Added Author Schonberg, Jeff, 1967-
ISBN 9780520230880 alkaline paper
0520230884 alkaline paper
9780520254985 paperback alkaline paper
0520254988 paperback alkaline paper
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