ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Narcotics Anonymous, Ethnography
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Philippe bourgois and jeff schonberg"s photo-ethnography, righteous dopefiend, the hardships that surround the daily lives of those living on the streets extend further than the lack of having a roof over their heads. These two anthropologists explore the tribulations that come with life on the streets combined with the physical dependence of heroin as they insert themselves into a homeless community in san francisco. Through the unbiased, documentary- style of research on this homeless community, it is clear that addiction and homelessness has important social and medical implications. As this ethnography reveals through firsthand accounts of a community of disadvantaged addicts, the structure of society often produces and reproduces this disadvantage. For over 10 years bourgois and schonberg follow the daily lives of a group of people referred to as the edgewater homeless. These individuals come from different ethnic backgrounds and have different histories.
