TY - BOOK ID - 78142067 TI - Materializing poverty PY - 2013 SN - 0759124221 9780759124226 9780759124219 0759124213 PB - Lanham, Maryland DB - UniCat KW - Poor KW - Material culture KW - Squatter settlements KW - Poverty KW - Social values KW - Values KW - Destitution KW - Wealth KW - Basic needs KW - Begging KW - Subsistence economy KW - Informal settlements (Squatter settlements) KW - Irregular settlements KW - Settlements, Spontaneous KW - Settlements, Squatter KW - Shack towns KW - Shanty towns KW - Shantytowns KW - Spontaneous settlements KW - Uncontrolled settlements KW - Cities and towns KW - Slums KW - Culture KW - Folklore KW - Technology KW - Disadvantaged, Economically KW - Economically disadvantaged KW - Impoverished people KW - Low-income people KW - Pauperism KW - Poor, The KW - Poor people KW - Persons KW - Social classes KW - Social conditions. KW - Economic conditions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78142067 AB - 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 engagements with materiality, rather than more dramatic efforts, generate social change and build futures. ER -