The ethnography With No Direction Home: Homeless Youth on the Road and in the Streets by Marni Finkelstein, describes the lives of street youth in New York City. The ethnography attempts to dispel the myths that previous studies have formed about these street youth. The author, Marni Finkelstein, is an anthropologist renowned for her work on at-risk urban populations. She graduated from the New School of Social Research in New York City with her doctorate in Anthropology. Finkelstein has also conducted studies on substance abuse, sexual assault, and drug use among New York City youth. Finkelstein achieves his goals by using a scientific approach in observing street youth. Some methods he uses are similar to those used previously, but some are very unique and present a new point of view on the issue. Furthermore, ethnography provides a brief glimpse into the highly adaptive nature of human beings. In the ethnography With No Direction Home: Homeless Youth on the Road and in the Streets, he combines his understanding of his previous research with his current study in order to enculturate the behavior of street youth. Finkelstein attempts to answer two distinctive questions about street youth. First of all, try to understand what are the events that lead young people to find themselves on the streets? Secondly, once young people are on the streets, what do they experience? In answering these questions, Finkelstein attempts to address the lack of “information about the lives of street children” (Finkelstein, 2005, preface) available to the general public. Conducts ethnographic interviews, in order to analyze the similarities and differences between young people's backgrounds. The author uses various ethnographic methods in an attempt to achieve her goal. Although… middle of paper… ips daily, the fact that they have survived and continue to survive, provides insight into how humans are able to adapt based on the environment. Unlike the ethnographies of Diversi, Dachner, and Abraham, Finkelstein makes sure to frequently apply participant observation methodology throughout his research. Works CitedDiversi, M. (2006). Street Kids In Nikes: Seeking Humanization Through Consumer Culture. Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, 6(3), 370-390.Finkelstein, M. (2005). With no direction home: Homeless youth on the streets and streets. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth.Gundersen, C., Weinreb, L., Wehler, C., & Hosmer, D. (2003). Homelessness and food insecurity. Journal of Housing Economics, 12(3), 250-272.Robbins, R.H. (2014). Cultural anthropology: A problem-based approach (second Canadian ed.). Itasca: FE Pavone.