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.

“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

• List of Tables and Figures, Photos and IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1. An Introduction to Homelessness and Anthropological PerspectivesChapter 2. Patterns of HomelessnessChapter 3. Explaining HomelessnessChapter 4. Surviving the StreetsChapter 5. Pathways Out of HomelessnessChapter 6. Concluding ThoughtsBibliography

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.

“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

• List of Tables and Figures, Photos and IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1. An Introduction to Homelessness and Anthropological PerspectivesChapter 2. Patterns of HomelessnessChapter 3. Explaining HomelessnessChapter 4. Surviving the StreetsChapter 5. Pathways Out of HomelessnessChapter 6. Concluding ThoughtsBibliography