Anthropology and development culture, morality and politics in a globalised world

In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to the adults and children who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and develop...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Crewe, Emma, 1962- autor (autor), Axelby, Richard, autor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2013.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45101395*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: hope and despair
  • Anthropologists engaged
  • The social and political organisation of aid and development
  • The elusive poor
  • Human rights and cultural fantasies
  • Hierarchies of knowledge
  • The moralities of production and exchange
  • The politics of policy and practice
  • Imagining the future.