In Search of Respect by Philippe Bourgois

In Search of Respect by Philippe Bourgois

In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgois's now-classic, ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim after it was first published in 1995 and in 1997 was awarded the Margaret Mead Award. For the first time, an anthropologist had managed to gain the trust and long-term friendship of street-level drug dealers in one of the roughest ghetto neighborhoods in the United States - East Harlem. This edition adds a prologue describing the major dynamics in America that have altered life on the streets of East Harlem in the six years since the first edition. Bourgois, in a new epilogue, brings up to date the stories of the people - Primo, Caesar, Luis, Tony, Candy - who readers come to know in this remarkable window onto the world of the inner-city drug trade.

'… rich interview and observational data is used to tell the stories of the residents … It is clear that Bourgois is a very skilled ethnographer and the book is testimony to that' Sociology
'… an impressive book. The beautifully written and well organised ethnography gives an insight into the drug scene culture with its harsh and shocking details of violence. … a masterpiece of ethnographic description …' Medische Anthropologie

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ISBN 13	9780521815628
ISBN 10	0521815622
Title	In Search of Respect
Author	Philippe Bourgois
Series	Structural Analysis In The Social Sciences
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Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2002-12-23
Number of pages	432
Prizes	Winner of Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (Nonfiction) 2003
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