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Elliot Liebow was an American urban anthropologist whose book Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men, published in 1967, was based on fieldwork among Black men in a Washington, D.C., neighborhood. The ethnography examined work, family obligations, friendship, reputation, and economic insecurity from the participants' own social setting, helping establish close observation of urban poverty as an important anthropological method and subject.
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What is Tally's Corner?
Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men is Elliot Liebow's 1967 ethnography of a Washington, D.C., neighborhood. It examines how Black men navigated work, family obligations, friendship, and reputation.
Who is Tally in Elliot Liebow's book?
Tally is the central street-corner figure through whom Liebow explores the social world described in the book. The setting is a Washington, D.C., neighborhood observed during fieldwork in the early 1960s.
What research method did Elliot Liebow use for Tally's Corner?
The book is based on close urban fieldwork and participant observation among the men he studied. Liebow used everyday conversations and relationships to analyze economic insecurity, masculinity, friendship, and family responsibility.
What did Elliot Liebow write after Tally's Corner?
His later book Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women was published in 1993. It extended his interest in marginalized urban lives to homeless women rather than the street-corner men of his 1967 study.
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