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Braving the Street : The Anthropology of Homelessness / Rae Bridgman, Irene Glasser.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Public Issues in Anthropological Perspective ; 1Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (146 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781571810977
  • 9781782381570
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.5/0973 362.50973
LOC classification:
  • HV4505 .G53 1999
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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 -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- 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 -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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