Taylor, Erin B.

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.

9780759124226 (e-book)


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.


Electronic books.

HN219.S2 / T39 2013eb

305.5/69097293/75