Adventures in Aidland : The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development /

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Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging variety of professional fields. Among these the encounter with international development has perhaps been longer and more intimate than any of the others. Ant...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Apthorpe, Raymond (Contribuidor), Eyben, Rosalind (Contribuidor), Green, Maia (Contribuidor), Harper, Ian (Contribuidor), Lera St. Clair, Asuncion (Contribuidor), Lewis, David (Contribuidor), McNeill, Desmond (Contribuidor), Mosse, David (Contribuidor, Editor ), Murray Li, Tania (Contribuidor), Rajak, Dinah (Contribuidor), Stirrat, Jock (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2011]
Colección:Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology ; 6
Temas:
Applied anthropology.
Economic development > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1 Introduction: The Anthropology of Expertise and Professionals in International Development
  • Chapter 2 Calculating Compassion: Accounting for Some Categorical Practices in International Development
  • Chapter 3 Rendering Society Technical: Government through Community and the Ethnographic Turn at the World Bank in Indonesia
  • Chapter 4 Social Analysis as Corporate Product: Non- Economists/Anthropologists at Work at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
  • Chapter 5 The World Bank's Expertise: Observant Participation in the World Development Report 2006, Equity and Development
  • Chapter 6 World Health and Nepal: Producing Internationals, Healthy Citizenship and the Cosmopolitan
  • Chapter 7 The Sociality of International Aid and Policy Convergence
  • Chapter 8 Parochial Cosmopolitanism and the Power of Nostalgia
  • Chapter 9 Tidy Concepts, Messy Lives: Defining Tensions in the Domestic and Overseas Careers of U.K. Non-Governmental Professionals
  • Chapter 10 Coda: With Alice in Aidland: A Seriously Satirical Allegory
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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