Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness

by Irene Glassen, Rae Bridgman, Irene Glasser

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157181096X
• ISBN13: 9781571810960
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"