Materializing poverty : how the poor transform their lives /
Erin B. Taylor.
- 1 online resource (193 pages)
- Anthropology of daily life series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the wealth of poverty -- More than artifacts: the materiality of poverty -- Building futures: squatting as an enabling constraint -- Too big to ignore: the state and the persistence of squatting -- "Crisis is coming": material manifestations of immaterial ends -- Moving places: barrios as barometers of national progress -- Flexible identities: negotiating values through material forms.
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Poor--Social conditions.--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo Material culture--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo. Squatter settlements--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo. Poverty--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo. Social values--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo.