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You owe yourself a drunk

an ethnography of urban nomads

by James P. Spradley

1999 301 pages eng

An anthropological study of vagrant culture in an urban environment. Spradley offers a portrayal of skid row men in Seattle in the late sixties documenting their treatment by jails and the legal system in a time before homelessness became a recognized problem. His study in urban ethnography is an ex…

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