Materializing poverty : how the poor transform their lives /

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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 engage...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Taylor, Erin B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Maryland : AltaMira Press, [2013]
Series:Anthropology of daily life series.
Subjects:
Poor > Dominican Republic > Santo Domingo > Social conditions.
Material culture > Dominican Republic > Santo Domingo.
Squatter settlements > Dominican Republic > Santo Domingo.
Poverty > Dominican Republic > Santo Domingo.
Social values > Dominican Republic > Santo Domingo.
Pauvres > République dominicaine > Saint-Domingue > Conditions sociales.
Culture matérielle > République dominicaine > Saint-Domingue.
Bidonvilles > République dominicaine > Saint-Domingue.
Pauvreté > République dominicaine > Saint-Domingue.
Valeurs sociales > République dominicaine > Saint-Domingue.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Material culture
Poor > Social conditions
Poverty
Social values
Squatter settlements
Dominican Republic > Santo Domingo
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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