Lilies of the field : marginal people who live for the moment / edited by Sophie Day, Evthymios Papataxiarchis, Michael Stewart.

Other author Day, Sophie.
Other author Papataxiarchēs, E. (Euthymios), 1954-
Other author Stewart, Michael, 1959-
Format Book
Publication InfoBoulder : Westview Press, 1999.
Descriptionxi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesStudies in the ethnographic imagination
Studies in the ethnographic imagination. ^A283323
Contents pt. 1. Life without thought for the morrow. "Brothers" and "orphans" : images of equality among Hungarian Rom / Michael Stewart ; Incorporation and exclusion in the Podhale / Frances Pine ; Prey at the center : resistance and marginality in Amazonia / Laura Rival -- pt. 2. Two marginal individuals. At the center of the market : a Vezo woman / Rita Astuti ; Two beautiful Untouchable women : processes of becoming in Southern India / Yasushi Uchiyamada -- pt. 3. Single-sex worlds. Wage hunting at the margins of urban Japan / Tom Gill ; Hustling : individualism among London prostitutes / Sophie Day ; A contest with money : gambling and the politics of disinterested sociality in Aegean Greece / Evthymios Papataxiarchis -- pt. 4. Writing about marginality. Verging on the marginal : modern Amazonian peasantries / Stephen Nugent ; The Brazilian floodplains : where cholera does not kill / Cacoclos, Mark Harris ; A doctor by the canal : a presentation of a person, from Nasser to Foucault / Fanny Colona.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-250) and index.
LCCN 98030158
ISBN0813335310 (hc : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HM136 .L524 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold