Anthropology in Aidland
Författare
Summary, in English
Panel Presentation on ethnographic approaches to U.S. Aid, using the concept of "Aidland" as a place one studies and the ideas of Marcel Mauss looking at donors as giftgivers, explicating the discourse of "partnership" when the donors and recipients are unequal. Based on the author's work as democracy consultant in Kosovo, Albania, Bosnia, Romania.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2005
Språk
Engelska
Fulltext
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Ämne
- Social Anthropology
Nyckelord
- Kosovo
- Balkans
- civil society
- democracy export
- anthropology of development
- Aidnography
- partnership
- Aidland
- donors
- NGOs
- development aid
- social anthropology
- development assistance
Conference name
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 2005
Conference date
2005-11-30 - 2005-12-04
Conference place
Washington, United States
Status
Unpublished