Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note To Readers
- Introduction
- 1 Speaking Of The Street
- 2 Being in the Street
- 3 “Home Children”: Nurtured Childhood and Nurturing Childhood
- 4 Betraying Motherdom: Maloqueiros and “That Life” in the Street
- 5 When Life is Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Violence and Street Children
- 6 Curing Street Children, Rescuing Childhood
- 7 Street Children and Their “Clients”
- Conclusion: The Ephemeral Lives of Street Children
- Appendix: The Setting: Recife, Olinda, and Northeast Brazil
- Glossary
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note To Readers
- Introduction
- 1 Speaking Of The Street
- 2 Being in the Street
- 3 “Home Children”: Nurtured Childhood and Nurturing Childhood
- 4 Betraying Motherdom: Maloqueiros and “That Life” in the Street
- 5 When Life is Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Violence and Street Children
- 6 Curing Street Children, Rescuing Childhood
- 7 Street Children and Their “Clients”
- Conclusion: The Ephemeral Lives of Street Children
- Appendix: The Setting: Recife, Olinda, and Northeast Brazil
- Glossary
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- At Home in the StreetStreet Children of Northeast Brazil, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998