Adventures in Aidland : the anthropology of professionals in international development /: the anthropology of professionals in international development. (©2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Mosse.
• Editors: Mosse, David
• Contents: Calculating compassion : accounting for some categorical practices in international development / Maia Green -- Rendering society technical : government through community and the ethnographic turn at the World Bank in Indonesia / Tania Murray Li -- Social analysis as corporate product : non-economists/anthropologists at work at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. / David Mosse -- The World Banks' expertise : observant participation in the world development report 2006, equity and development / Desmond McNeill and Asuncion Lera St. Clair -- World health and Nepal : producing internationals, healthy citizenship and the cosmopolitan / Ian Harper -- The sociality of international aid and policy convergence / Rosalind Eyben -- Parochial cosmopolitanism and the power of nostalgia / Dinah Rajak and Jock Stirrat -- Tidy concepts, messy lives : defining tensions in the domestic and overseas careers of U.K. non-governmental professionals / David Lewis -- Coda : with Alice in Aidland : a seriously satirical allegory / Raymond Apthorpe.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 238 pages)
• Subjects: 301; Applied anthropology; Economic development -- Social aspects; Ethnographic; Social Science; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Applied anthropology; Economic development -- Social aspects; Angewandte Anthropologie; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit; Internationale Kooperation; Nichtstaatliche Organisation; Anthropologie appliquée; Économie du développement; Tillämpad antropologi; Ekonomisk utveckling -- sociala aspekter; Internationellt bistånd -- sociala aspekter; Niet-commerciële organisaties; Antropologen; Ontwikkelingswerkers; Sociale aspecten; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857451118; 0857451111
• Related ISBNs: 9780857451101; 0857451103
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.