The office of reason: On the politics of language and agency in a shelter for "the homeless mentally ill"

American Ethnologist

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 880-900

  Desjarlais, Robert ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Agency; Homelessness; Language; Mental illness; Power; Reason

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030364534     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.1996.23.4.02a00110     Document Type: Article

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