{"pk":42753,"title":"Governable Travelers: International Comparison in American Tramp Ethnography","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Near the end of the nineteenth century, the “tramp” embodied the most extreme aspects of the boom-and-bust economy in the US. More than any other writer of his day, the ethnographer Josiah Flynt assisted both the public and government officials in visualizing the lives of tramps with the intent of rehabilitating this population. The key text in this effort, Flynt’s \nTramping with Tramps\n (1899) hinges on a comparison between US and European vagrancy. For reform-minded authors like Flynt, tramping in Europe provides a point of comparison for evaluating key areas of concern in the US—namely, the problem of idleness among sectors of the American population. The depiction of tramping abroad in Flynt’s work—as well as in accounts by writers like Mark Twain—ultimately reflects the international nexus shaping both the discourse surrounding vagrancy as well as antitramp legislation.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"<p>Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.</p>","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"vagrancy laws, 19th-century antitramp legislation, Josiah Flynt, Tramping with Tramps, Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5tb6b3g0","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Bryan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yazell","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Southern Denmark","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2015-08-14T01:26:35+01:00","date_accepted":"2015-08-14T01:26:35+01:00","date_published":"2017-09-29T18:34:24+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/42753/galley/31889/download/"}]}