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'''Philippe Bourgois''' (b. 1956) is a Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology & Family and Community Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He has conducted [[research]] in Central America on [[ethnicity]] and social unrest and is the author of ''Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation'' (1989). He also did fieldwork in the [[East Harlem]] neighborhood of [[New York City]]. His book ''In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio'' was the winner of the 1996 C. Wright Mills Award and the 1997 [[Margaret Mead Award]]. His most recent fieldwork has been among homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco, which is the subject of a forthcoming book co-authored with Jeff Schonberg. He is considered an important proponent of [[Neo-Marxism|neo-Marxist]] theory, and is a self-identified [[Communist]] |
'''Philippe Bourgois''' (b. 1956) is a Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology & Family and Community Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He has conducted [[research]] in Central America on [[ethnicity]] and social unrest and is the author of ''Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation'' (1989). He also did fieldwork in the [[East Harlem]] neighborhood of [[New York City]]. His book ''In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio'' was the winner of the 1996 C. Wright Mills Award and the 1997 [[Margaret Mead Award]]. His most recent fieldwork has been among homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco, which is the subject of a forthcoming book co-authored with Jeff Schonberg. He is considered an important proponent of [[Neo-Marxism|neo-Marxist]] theory, and is a self-identified [[Communist]] <ref>http://www.publicanthropology.org/Journals/Grad-j/Wisconsin/Bourgint.htm</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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* McGee, R.J. and R.L. Warms, ''Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History''. McGraw Hill, Boston, 2004. (ISBN 0-07-284046-3) |
* McGee, R.J. and R.L. Warms, ''Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History''. McGraw Hill, Boston, 2004. (ISBN 0-07-284046-3) |
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Revision as of 19:17, 2 February 2008
Philippe Bourgois (b. 1956) is a Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology & Family and Community Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He has conducted research in Central America on ethnicity and social unrest and is the author of Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation (1989). He also did fieldwork in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City. His book In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio was the winner of the 1996 C. Wright Mills Award and the 1997 Margaret Mead Award. His most recent fieldwork has been among homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco, which is the subject of a forthcoming book co-authored with Jeff Schonberg. He is considered an important proponent of neo-Marxist theory, and is a self-identified Communist [1]
References
- McGee, R.J. and R.L. Warms, Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. McGraw Hill, Boston, 2004. (ISBN 0-07-284046-3)