Materializing Poverty

How the Poor Transform Their Lives

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Demography, Sociology
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Author: Erin B. Taylor ISBN: 9780759124226
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Publication: October 10, 2013
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Language: English
Author: Erin B. Taylor
ISBN: 9780759124226
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication: October 10, 2013
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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 this book, 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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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 this book, 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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