Lilies of the field : marginal people who live for the moment / edited by Sophie Day, Evthymios Papataxiarchis, Michael Stewart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Day, Sophie.

Papataxiarchēs, E. (Euthymios), 1954-

Stewart, Michael, 1959-

Series:

Studies in the ethnographic imagination

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social.

Social groups.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Poverty.

Physical Description:

xi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Westview Press, 1999.

Contents:

Consider the Lilies of the Field / Sophie Day, Evthymios Papataxiarchis, Michael Stewart 1

Part 1 Life Without Thought for the Morrow 25

1 "Brothers" and "Orphans": Images of Equality Among Hungarian Rom / Michael Stewart 27

2 Incorporation and Exclusion in the Podhale / Frances Pine 45

3 Prey at the Center: Resistance and Marginality in Amazonia / Laura Rival 61

Part 2 Two Marginal Individuals 81

4 At the Center of the Market: A Vezo Woman / Rita Astuti 83

5 Two Beautiful Untouchable Women: Processes of Becoming in Southern India / Yasushi Uchiyamada 96

Part 3 Single-Sex Worlds 117

6 Wage Hunting at the Margins of Urban Japan / Tom Gill 119

7 Hustling: Individualism Among London Prostitutes / Sophie Day 137

8 A Contest with Money: Gambling and the Politics of Disinterested Sociality in Aegean Greece / Evthymios Papataxiarchis 158

Part 4 Writing About Marginality 177

9 Verging on the Marginal: Modern Amazonian Peasantries / Stephen Nugent 179

10 The Brazilian Floodplains: Where Cholera Does Not Kill Caboclos / Mark Harris 196

11 A Doctor by a Canal: A Presentation of a Person, from Nasser to Foucault / Fanny Colonna 212.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250) and index.

ISBN:

0813335310

OCLC:

39458912