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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493685103321

Titolo

Adventures in Aidland [[electronic resource] ] : the anthropology of professionals in international development / / edited by David Mosse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, c2011

ISBN

0-85745-111-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Studies in public and applied anthropology ; ; v. 6

Altri autori (Persone)

MosseDavid

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Applied anthropology

Economic development - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Adventures in Aidland; CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2: CALCULATING COMPASSION; Chapter 3: RENDERING SOCIETY TECHNICAL; Chapter 4: SOCIAL ANALYSIS AS CORPORATE PRODUCT; Chapter 5: THE WORLD BANK'S EXPERTISE; Chapter 6: WORLD HEALTH AND NEPAL; Chapter 7: THE SOCIALITY OF INTERNATIONAL AIDAND POLICY CONVERGENCE; Chapter 8: PAROCHIAL COSMOPOLITANISM ANDTHE POWER OF NOSTALGIA; Chapter 9: TIDY CONCEPTS, MESSY LIVES; Chapter 10: CODA; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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. Anthropologists have drawn critical attention to the interfaces and social effects of development's discursive regimes but, oddly enough, have paid scant attention to knowledge producers themselves, despite anthropologists being among them. This is the focus of this volume. It concerns the construct