Citation

Margaretten E. Anthropol. Humanism. 2009; 34(2): 163-178.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and the American Anthropological Association, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1548-1409.2009.01036.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article offers a story about community formation right along the sidelines of the streets. It traces the transitory movements of youth in South Africa, their sojourns from the streets to shelters and places of their own making. Blending personal narratives with ethnographic description and analyses, this article illustrates a crossing over of moments in which abandonment and abuse give rise to instances of companionship, care, and cohabitation.