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Homelessness
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Homelessness Irene Glasser and Rae Bridgman The field of anthropology has contributed much to documenting the condition of homelessness, with the goals of easing the lives of those who are homeless, and pointing to ways of preventing and eradicating homelessness. Anthropology’s theories, methodologies, and modes of analysis make it especially suited to unearthing the subtleties of homelessness. As one of the most visible indicators of poverty, homelessness confronts communities with their inability to offer everyone the most basic conditions for a healthy and productive life.
DEFINITIONS AND THEORIES HOMELESSNESS
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A widely used conceptualization of homelessness developed by Peter Rossi (Rossi, Wright, Fisher, & Willis, 1987) distinguishes between the literally homeless (persons who obviously have no access to a conventional dwelling and who would be considered homeless by any conceivable definition of the term) and the precariously or marginally housed (persons with tenuous or very temporary claims to a more or less conventional dwelling
or housing). This distinction can be used in studies of the visibly homeless (those in homeless shelters and living on the streets, i
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