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Author Taylor, Erin B.

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

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : AltaMira Press, [2013]
2013

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Description 1 online resource (193 pages)
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Series Anthropology of daily life series
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Taylor, Erin B. Materializing poverty : how the poor transform their lives. Lanham, Maryland : AltaMira Press, [2013] xi, 179 pages 9780759124219 (DLC) 2013032736
ISBN 9780759124219 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780759124226 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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