"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
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.
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. Rae Bridgman
is Research Associate at the Department of Social Anthropology of
York University, Canada."
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