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Adventures in Aidland : the anthropology of professionals in international development / edited by David Mosse.

Other author/creatorMosse, David.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Descriptionx, 238 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Studies in public and applied anthropology ; v. 6
Studies in public and applied anthropology v. 6. ^A1107781
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011000953
ISBN9780857451101 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0857451103 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9780857451118 (ebook)
ISBN0857451111 (ebook)

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Joyner General Stacks GN397.5 .A38 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold