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Materializing Poverty : How the Poor Transform Their Lives, Hardback Book

Materializing Poverty : How the Poor Transform Their Lives Hardback

Part of the Anthropology of Daily Life series

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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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