ISBN:

• 9780759124219
• 0759124213

Description: xi, 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-172) 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.

LCCN: 2013032736

Control Number: 1043739

Series:

• Anthropology of daily life series
• Anthropology of daily life series.

Subjects:

• Material culture -- Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo.
• Poor -- Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo -- Social conditions.
• Poverty -- Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo.
• Social values -- Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo.
• Squatter settlements -- Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo.