Materializing Poverty : How the Poor Transform Their Lives.

By: Taylor, Erin BMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Anthropology of Daily LifePublisher: California : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (147 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780759124226Subject(s): Social values - Dominican Republic - Santo DomingoGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Materializing Poverty : How the Poor Transform Their LivesDDC classification: 362.55 LOC classification: HN219.S2 -- T39 2013ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- More Than Artifacts -- Building Futures -- Too Big to Ignore -- ¡Crisis Is Coming! -- Moving Places -- Flexible Identities -- Coda -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: 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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Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- More Than Artifacts -- Building Futures -- Too Big to Ignore -- ¡Crisis Is Coming! -- Moving Places -- Flexible Identities -- Coda -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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