Title Materializing poverty : how the poor transform their lives / Erin B. Taylor.

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Lanham, Maryland : AltaMira Press, [2013]

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	<Span><span>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.</span></span>
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Subject	Poor -- Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo -- Social conditions.
	Poor.
	Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo.
	Social conditions.
	Material culture -- Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo.
	Material culture.
	Squatter settlements -- Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo.
	Squatter settlements.
	Poverty -- Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo.
	Poverty.
	Social values -- Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo.
	Social values.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Taylor, Erin B. Materializing poverty 9780759124219 (DLC) 2013032736 (OCoLC)851254777
ISBN	9780759124226 (electronic book)
	0759124221 (electronic book)
	9780759124219
	0759124213

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