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Materializing Poverty: How the Poor Transform Their Lives

Materializing Poverty: How the Poor Transform Their Lives

Taylor, Erin B.

Hardcover

Series: Anthropology of Daily Life

General SociologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0759124213
ISBN13: 9780759124219
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Oct 10 2013
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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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