Materializing Poverty: How the Poor Transform Their Lives (Anthropology of Daily Life)
Book Details
Author(s)
Erin B. Taylor
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN / ASIN
0759124213
ISBN-13
9780759124219
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Sales Rank
#2,136,792
Category
Social Science
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United States 🇺🇸
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Description
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.
