Materializing Poverty : How the Poor Transform Their Lives Hardback
by Erin B. Taylor
Part of the Anthropology of Daily Life series
Hardback
Description
Poverty is generally defined as a lack of material resources.
However, the relationships that poor people have with their possessions are not just about deprivation.
Material things play a positive role in the lives of poor people: they help people to build social relationships, address inequalities, and fulfill emotional needs.
In Materializing Poverty, anthropologist Erin Taylor explores how residents of a squatter settlement in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, use their material resources creatively to solve everyday problems and, over a few decades, radically transform the community.
Their struggles show how these everyday engagements with materiality, rather than more dramatic efforts, generate social change and build futures.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:10/10/2013
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- ISBN:9780759124219
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:10/10/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780759124219