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- More Than Bread: Ethnography of a Soup Kitchen
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
summary
More Than Bread examines life in the dining room of the Tabernacle Soup Kitchen, located in Middle City in a New England state. What happens when one hundred guests, which include single mothers, drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally ill, and the chronically unemployed, representing diverse age groups and ethnicities, come together in the dining room for several hours each day? Irene Glasser challenges the popular assumption that soup kitchens function primarily to provide food for the hungry by refocusing our attention on the social aspects of the dining room. The soup kitchen offers a model of a de-professionalized, nonclinical, nurturing setting that is in contrast to the traditional human services agency.
Table of Contents
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- List of Tables
- p. viii
- Acknowledgements
- pp. ix-x
- 1. The Contemporary Soup Kitchen
- pp. 1-13
- 2. A Historical Perspective
- pp. 14-22
- 3. The Tabernacle Soup Kitchen
- pp. 23-33
- 4. Field Study Methods
- pp. 34-48
- 5. Profile of the Guest Population
- pp. 49-68
- 6. Loneliness
- pp. 69-85
- 7. An Ambience of Acceptance
- pp. 86-99
- 8. Social Networks and Social Support
- pp. 100-117
- 11. Concluding Thoughts
- pp. 150-161
- 12. Epilogue
- pp. 163-167
- References
- pp. 169-182
Additional Information
ISBN
9780817383930
Related ISBN(s)
9780817356187
MARC Record
OCLC
680620774
Pages
199
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2010