Maya chose the eviction crisis in her town. She mapped landlords’ networks, tenants’ survival strategies, and the city council’s language of “blight.” For the first time, she saw poverty not as a failure of individuals but as a system of relationships —exactly as Robbins’ chapter on inequality had framed it.
Unlike standard anthropology textbooks that are organized by topic (e.g., "Chapter 3: Kinship," "Chapter 4: Religion"), Robbins organizes his text around specific and paradoxes . Maya chose the eviction crisis in her town