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Coming of Age on the Streets of Java Coping with Marginality, Stigma and Illness Thomas Stodulka

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This book is based on almost five years of fieldwork with street-related communities in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, between 2001 and 2015. The author inquires into children's and adolescents' coming of age on the streets and their remarkable social and emotional competences, instead of resorting to a dreadful discourse of pity and despair. The ethnography's multi-vocal narrative couples vivid accounts of ethnographic case studies and life stories with current theory on affect, emotion, empathy, structural violence or social interaction in the context of marginality, stigma and chronic illness. ; »It is an important contribution to street-related children, anthropology of emotions, anthropology of urban poverty, anthropology of HIV and AIDS, Indonesian/Java studies, and ethnographic fieldwork.« Nathan Porath, Anthropos, 113 (2018) Besprochen in: South Asia Research, 13.09.2019, Janice Newberry

Title Coming of Age on the Streets of Java Coping with Marginality, Stigma and Illness Thomas Stodulka
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Bielefeld transcript Verlag
Creation Date 2016
Notes Issued also in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
Thomas Stodulka is a social anthropologist with a focus on Psychological Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin.
In English.
Content Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 9 Acknowledgments 11 Note 13 1. Theorizing Life on the Streets 15 2. Fieldwork and Ethnography 35 3. 'City with a Warm Heart' 45 4. Becoming Tekyan 65 5. Being Tekyan 97 6. Emotional Economies of Avoidance and Attention 113 7. Leaving the Streets 167 8. Epilogue: 'Cleansed Streets' 241 Appendix 251 Bibliography 267
Series EmotionsKulturen / EmotionCultures 2
Extent 1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language English
National Library system number 997010701563905171
MARC RECORDS
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