You Owe Yourself a Drunk
Subtitle: An Ethnography of Urban Nomads
Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
Published: October 8, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781577660859
Subjects: Sociology; Alcoholism; Anthropology - Cultural; Homeless persons; Seattle; Social Science; Sociology - Urban; Tramps; Washington (State); Social Science / Sociology / Urban
Description: 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 example of the direct application of distinctly anthropological concepts and methods to address real-world problems and it represents a challenge to society about our capacity to endure and accept nonconformity and social diversity. --From publisher description.