Philippe Bourgois
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Philippe Bourgois (b. 1956) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He has recently accepted a position at Upenn which he will take up in the 2007-2008 academic year. He has conducted fieldwork in Central America on ethnicity and social unrest and is the author of Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation (1989). He also did fieldwork in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City. His book In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio is the winner of the 1996 C. Wright Mills Award and the 1997 Margaret Mead Award. He is considered an important proponent of neo-Marxist theory.
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- McGee, R.J. and R.L. Warms, Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. McGraw Hill, Boston, 2004. (ISBN 0-07-284046-3)
