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More than bread
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ISBN: 081738393X 9780817383930 0817356185 9780817356187 9780817356187 Year: 2010 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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More Than Bread examines life in the dining room of the Tabernacle Soup Kitchen, located in Middle City in a New England state. What happens when one hundred guests, which include single mothers, drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally ill, and the chronically unemployed, representing diverse age groups and ethnicities, come together in the dining room for several hours each day? Irene Glasser challenges the popular assumption that soup kitchens function primarily to provide food for the hungry by refocusing our attention on the social aspects of the dining room. The soup kitchen

Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness
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ISBN: 1571810978 1782381570 Year: 1999 Publisher: Berghahn Books

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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 so


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Braving the Street
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ISBN: 9781782381570 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York Oxford

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ISBN: 9781782381570 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York; ; Oxford Berghahn Books

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Urban anthropology in the 1990's : a collection of syllabi and an extensive bibliography
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Publisher: Society for urban anthropology.

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