Conversionary sites : transforming medical aid and global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota /: transforming medical aid and global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Britt Halvorson.
• Authors: Halvorson, Britt
• Contents: Introduction: conversionary sites in global christianities -- Remembering and forgetting through medical aid work -- Becoming humanitarians: bodies multiple in communities of aid -- Redeeming medical waste, making medical relief -- Restructuring value in antananarivo -- Translating aid, brokering identity: malagasy doctors as precarious heroes -- Traversing shadow spaces of accountability -- Conclusions: aid's end times.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 266; Social Science -- General; RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions; Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Religion -- Christian Ministry -- Missions; Social Science -- Philanthropy & Charity; Medical -- General; Medical assistance, American -- Madagascar; Faith-based human services -- Madagascar; Faith-based human services -- Minnesota; Missions, Medical -- Madagascar; Missions, Medical -- Social aspects; Electronic books; Missions -- Madagascar
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226557434
• Related ISBNs: 022655743X; 9780226557120; 022655712X; 9780226557267; 022655726X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 24, 2018).
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