More Than Bread: Ethnography of a Soup Kitchen

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Index Acceptance of guests, 8, 10, 11, 13, 86, 87, 91, 94, 96, 100, 120, 138, 158, 159; as deprofessionalism, 10--11; as benevolent anarchy, 10--11; as a reason for going to the soup kitchen, 88-95 Advocate and advocacy, 46, 126, 143 Affiliation. See Sociability; Social networks ; Social relationships AIDS: the potential of prevention, 136. See also Self-help Alcoholism, 3, 39, 42, 112, 117; alcoholic , 39, 71, 95, 103, 132; delirium tremems, 91; alcohol counselor, 125, 131, 132. See also Drinking Anthropologist(s), 43, 48, 81; medical anthropologists, 53 Anthropology, 4, 43, 44, 47, 52, 152, 158; urban anthropology, 4-8, 43; applied anthropology, 48 Appleby, Lawrence, 98 Armelagos, George, 10 Asylum, 11, 87, 88, 92, 94, 161 Auletta, Ken, 7 Aykroyd, W, 15-16 Bachrach, L. L., 20, 87, 88 Barnes, J. A., 12 Basaglia, Francisco, 98 Baxter, E., 5, 42, 78, 85 Behrhorst, Carroll, 119 Bell, Daniel, 7 Bierman, Edwin, 59 Biklen, Sari Knopp, 127 Blaustein, Arthur, 18 Bogdan, Robert, 127 Bohannan, Paul, 43 Boredom in the soup kitchen, 113, 121, 131, 134, 137 Bott, E., 12 Boujouen, Norma, 55 Britan, Gerald, 127 Catholic Worker Movement, 139. See also Ministry; Staff Charity, 22, ISO Cheung, Y., 119 Child abuse, 43, 83, 94, 106, 115, 124, 130, 132, 134; failure to thrive, 114; children removed from home, 55, 95, 113, 114; protective service worker, 135 Children in the soup kitchen, 55, 72, 73, 74, 79, 93, 95, 101, lOS, 109, 110, m, 113, 114, 123 Christian church, 22; Saint Mary's Church, 23--30. See also Ministry; Religion Christianity, 26-27, 139, 141, 147-48 Clarke, A., 98 Cloward, Richard, 119 Cobb, S., 117 Companionship, 10, 42, 85 Conrad, Peter, 145 Cowen, Emory, 120 184 Index Coyne, James, 11, 101, 103 Crime, 86; arrests, 94--95, 104, 132; criminal charges, 98; criminal acts, 99. See also Prison Cultural relativism, 99 Cultural themes, 8-12 Culture of poverty, 6-7 Culture of the soup kitchen, 4, 48, 136, 154, 159, 161 Day, Dorothy, 139 Deinstitutionalization of mentally ill, 17, 20, 22, 87, 88, 156, 158, 159 Demographic characteristics of guests: age, 47, 50, 54; sex (gender), 47, 53; ethnicity, 47, 50; household membership , 47; educational level, 50, 63. See also Guests Depression, Great, 14. See also Soup kitchen: historical references to Desai, Prakash, 98 Deviance, 86, 88, 98; deviant, 86; medicalization of, 145 Dinitz, S., 98 Dohrenwend, Barbara, 60 Dohrenwend, Bruce, 60 Drinking, 42, 59, 72, 83, 134, 145; drunk, 79, 91, 110. See also Alcoholism Drug use, 9, 86, 121; heroin, 71; getting high, 38, 72, 112, 136; drugs, 42, 59, 79, 94, 124, 132, 142; cocaine , 104; drug counselor, 125; drug dealer, 146 Dumont, M. P., 3, 103, 108 Dynes, R., 98 Ecological niche, 2 Education, 47, 50, 63; General Education Diploma, 115; English as a Second Language class, 53, 55, 63 Eisenberg, Leon, 60 Emie and etie distinction, 34--35 Emotional support, 101, 106, 107, 110, 116, 117 Employment. See Work Ethnicity, 47, 50 Ethnographic methods, 12 Ethnography, 34--35, 43, 55, 158 Family relationships, 37-38, 74--75, 95, 105-07, 111-12, 113-16, 135 Farb, Peter, 10 Food, 10, 20, 28, 29, 37, 143, 158; soup kitchen meal, 9-10, 30; food salvage, 28, 150; feeding ministry, 30; attitude toward, 74; appetite, 76, 143; food sharing, 150. See also Nutrition Food Stamps, 21, 111, 150, 156 Foster, George, 48 Freeman, James, 42 Gatekeepers, 44-46 General Assistance. See Welfare Gheel, Belgium, 98 Giachello, Aida, 31 Glasser, Morton, 60 Goffman, Erving, 144-45 Goldsmith, Douglas, 9 Goodenough, Ward, 4 Grenier, Jay, 118 Guests: as soup kitchen nomenclature, 3; as a social status, 27, 133; as key informants, 37-41; attitude toward being a guest, 42, 15~4; world view of, 35, 78; a "regular" guest, 121, 123, 129, 154. See also Demographic characteristics of guests Harrington, Michael, 139 Hartford, Margaret, 122 Health, 47, 55, 58-63; access to health care, 47, 62-63; indigenous health workers, 119 Health problems, 1, 55, 58-63, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 78-79, 80, 84, 85, 159; physical disabilities, 40, 81, 82, 83, 86, 92-93, 98, 99; dental problems, 62. See also Mental health problems; Psychiatric Henderson, J. Neil, 119, 120 Hispanic, 28, 31, 32, 50, 53, 55, 64, 126, 160. See also Puerto Rican Hombs, Mary Ellen, 98 Homeless, 5, 17, 20, 21, 41, 42, 77, 108, 122; awareness of homelessness...