Life Stories, Status, and Symbolic Typing: Exploring Beggars As an Interpretive Community

Mina Meir-Dviri; Aviad E. Raz

doi:10.1075/jnlh.6.2.02lif

ISSN 1053-6981
E-ISSN: 2405-9374

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Life Stories, Status, and Symbolic Typing: Exploring Beggars As an Interpretive Community
Author(s): Mina Meir-Dviri ¹ and Aviad E. Raz ²
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¹ Yesrwel College, Ganei-Tikva, Israel

² Tel-Aviv University, and The Institute for the Study of Travel, Tokyo
Source: Journal of Narrative and Life History, Volume 6, Issue 2, Jan 1996, p. 123 - 143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.6.2.02lif

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AbstractBased on fieldwork in a central bus station in Israel, this article focuses on the theme of life stories as an analytical venue into the social world of beggars. Beggars were found to have three statuses, or symbolic types: the handicapped, the prostitute, and the mad. The ethnography describes the interplay between the status and life stories of beggars, and analyzes how life stories are changed vis-a-vis a beggar's change of status. (Sociology, Anthropology)

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