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The Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into
homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless
man who became her co-author, Cathy A. Small takes a compelling
look at what it means and what it takes to be homeless. Interviews
and encounters with dozens of homeless people lead us into a world
that most have never seen. We travel as an intimate observer into
the places that many homeless frequent, including a community
shelter, a day labor agency, a panhandling corner, a pawn shop, and
a HUD housing office. Through these personal stories, we witness
the obstacles that homeless people face, and the ingenuity it takes
to negotiate life without a home. The Man in the Dog Park points to
the ways that our own cultural assumptions and blind spots are
complicit in US homelessness and contribute to the degree of
suffering that homeless people face. At the same time, Small,
Kordosky and Moore show us how our own sense of connection and
compassion can bring us into touch with the actions that will
lessen homelessness and bring greater humanity to the experience of
those who remain homeless. The raw emotion of The Man in the Dog
Park will forever change your appreciation for, and understanding
of, the homeless life so many deal with outside of the limelight of
contemporary society.
In Voyages, Cathy A. Small offers a view of the changes in
migration, globalization, and ethnographic fieldwork over three
decades. The second edition adds fresh descriptions and narratives
in three new chapters based on two more visits to Tonga and
California in 2010. The author (whose role after thirty years of
fieldwork is both ethnographer and family member) reintroduces the
reader to four sisters in the same family two who migrated to the
United States and two who remained in Tonga and reveals what has
unfolded in their lives in the fifteen years since the first
edition was written. The second edition concludes with new
reflections on how immigration and globalization have affected
family, economy, tradition, political life, identity, and the
practice of anthropology."
In Voyages, Cathy A. Small offers a view of the changes in
migration, globalization, and ethnographic fieldwork over three
decades. The second edition adds fresh descriptions and narratives
in three new chapters based on two more visits to Tonga and
California in 2010. The author (whose role after thirty years of
fieldwork is both ethnographer and family member) reintroduces the
reader to four sisters in the same family two who migrated to the
United States and two who remained in Tonga and reveals what has
unfolded in their lives in the fifteen years since the first
edition was written. The second edition concludes with new
reflections on how immigration and globalization have affected
family, economy, tradition, political life, identity, and the
practice of anthropology."
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