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Braving the Street Irene Glasser

Braving the Street By Irene Glasser

Braving the Street by Irene Glasser


Summary

The authors, anthropologists from the U.S.A. and Canada, offer us an analysis of homelessness that is grounded in anthropological research in North America and throughout the world. Both have in-depth experience through working in communities of the homeless and present us withthe results of their own work and with that of their colleagues.

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Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness by Irene Glasser

As homelessness continues to plague North America and also becomes more widespread in Europe, anthropologists turn their attention to solving the puzzle of why people in some of the most advanced technological societies in the world are found huddled in a subway tunnel, squatting in a vacant building, living in a shelter, or camping out in an abandoned field or on a beach. Anthropologists have a long tradition of working in poverty subcultures and have been able to contribute answers to some of the puzzles of homelessness through their ability to enter the culture of the homeless without some of the preconceptions of other disciplines.

The authors, anthropologists from the U.S.A. and Canada, offer us an analysis of homelessness that is grounded in anthropological research in North America and throughout the world. Both have in-depth experience through working in communities of the homeless and present us withthe results of their own work and with that of their colleagues.

Braving the Street Reviews

This slim, useful book ... is suitable for students ... The fairly tight North American focus allows for great accuracy and detail, and the Canadian material is especially interesting, because Canadian social policy is less well known than that of the United States, and seems far more progressive on homelessness. * The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

[The authors] present key themes from the available literature in a way that affords policy makers and other practitioners access to what it is that anthropology has to offer in thinking about and responding to homelessness on a day-to-day, ground level. In this endeavor, [the book] is supremely successful. * American Anthropologist

About Irene Glasser

Irene Glasser has widely published on homelessness and has been Professor of Anthropology at Eastern Connecticut State University, specializing in urban, applied, and medical anthropology. Since 1994 she has also been Director of Canadian Studies.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures, Photos and Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface

Chapter 1. An Introduction to Homelessness and Anthropological Perspectives
Chapter 2. Patterns of Homelessness
Chapter 3. Explaining Homelessness
Chapter 4. Surviving the Streets
Chapter 5. Pathways Out of Homelessness
Chapter 6. Concluding Thoughts

Bibliography

Additional information

CIN1571810978VG
9781571810977
1571810978
Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness by Irene Glasser
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
19990401
146
N/A
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