[URBANTH-L]Reader on the Anthropology of Homelessness

Alcira Forero-Pena alforep at gmail.com
Wed Jan 21 16:45:50 EST 2009


David,

I thought that Anthony Marcus's book, *Where Have All the Homeless Gone*,
 will be useful for your purpose. Check it out.

http://www.bookfinder.com/dir/i/Where_Have_All_The_Homeless_Gone-The_Making_And_Unmaking_Of_A_Crisis/1845451015/

Best,

Alcira

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Vincent Lyon-Callo <
vincent.lyon-callo at wmich.edu> wrote:

> David,
>
> As far as I've been able to tell, such a volume does not exist.  With some
> searching around, you can find a range of papers on the situation in
> different countries-and many are increasing analyzing homelessness rather
> than just describing homeless people-but there really isn't an edited volume
> that does it.  Irene Glasser had her book, but that's 15 years old now and
> wasn't a collection of essays.  It's actually something that I've thought
> about trying to pull together for many years, but have never followed
> through on it.
>
> --
> Vin Lyon-Callo
> Associate Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> Western Michigan University
> Kalamazoo MI 49008
> 269-387-3964
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Slater <d-slater at sophia.ac.jp>
> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:50 am
> Subject: [URBANTH-L]Reader on the Anthropology of Homelessness
>
> > Hello Everyone,
> >     I am teaching a fieldwork course on Tokyo Homeless--which a
> > large and
> > growing problem in neoliberal Japan. I am looking for a reader on the
> > cross-cultural issues, including research, of homelessness. Has
> > anyone used
> > one with any particular success?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
> >
> > --
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> > Faculty of Liberal Arts
> > Sophia University, Tokyo
> >
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