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Materializing Poverty: How the Poor Transform Their Lives (Anthropology of Daily Life) by Taylor, Erin B., author is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Materializing Poverty: How the Poor Transform Their Lives (Anthropology of Daily Life) about?
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 c
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- Author
- Taylor, Erin B., author
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780759124226
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Social Science, Social_sciences
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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