Materializing Poverty: How the Poor Transform Their Lives

By Erin B. Taylor

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759124213
• ISBN13: 9780759124219
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary