Materializing Poverty : How the Poor Transform Their Lives
Overview
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 Materializing Poverty, 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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780759124219
- ISBN-10: 0759124213
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publish Date: October 2013
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.92 pounds
- Page Count: 192
- Reading Level: Ages 18-22
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