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  • The Aid Effect

    Giving and Governing in International Development

    Edición de David Mosse, David Lewis ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Today international development policy is converging around ideas of neoliberal reform, democratisation and poverty reduction. What does this mean for the local and international dimensions of aid relationships?The Aid Effect demonstrates the fruitfulness of an ethnographic approach to aid, policy reform and global governance. The contributors provide powerful commentary on hidden processes, ... Leer más

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  • Cultivating Development

    An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice

    de David Mosse ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    What if development agencies and researchers are not driven by policy? Suppose that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy that legitimises and mobilises political support - in reality make it impossible to implement?By focusing in detail on the unfolding activities of a development project in western India over more than ten years, as it falls under different policy regimes, this book ... Leer más

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  • The Anthropology of Christianity

    This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fenella Cannell contends in her powerful introduction, Christianity is the critical “repressed” of anthropology. To ... Leer más

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  • Development as Process

    Concepts and Methods for Working with Complexity

    Series series Routledge Research/ODI Development Policy Studies
    Process" approaches to economic and social development appear to be more flexible and offer greater prospects of success than traditional "project" methods.Development as Process addresses the questions raised by the different natures of the two approaches. The authors examine development projects through experience in water resources development in India and in organizational learning by a ... Leer más

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  • Adventures in Aidland

    The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development

    Edición de David Mosse ...
    Series Libro 6 - Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology
    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Saint in the Banyan Tree

    Christianity and Caste Society in India

    de David Mosse ...
    Series Libro 14 - The Anthropology of Christianity
    The Saint in the Banyan Tree is a nuanced and historically persuasive exploration of Christianity’s remarkable trajectory as a social and cultural force in southern India. Starting in the seventeenth century, when the religion was integrated into Tamil institutions of caste and popular religiosity, this study moves into the twentieth century, when Christianity became an unexpected source of ... Leer más

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  • Regulating Platforms

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    We once thought of cyberspace as a borderless world. As the internet has become increasingly platformized, with a small number of technology giants that dominate the global digital economy, concerns about information monopolies, hateful online content, and the impact on media content creators and creative industries have become more marked. Consequently governments, politicians, and civil society ... Leer más

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  • Spirituality: A Very Short Introduction

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    It has been suggested that 'spirituality' has become a word that 'can define an era'. Why? Because paradoxically, alongside a decline in traditional religious affiliations, the growing interest in spirituality and the use of the word in a variety of contexts is a striking aspect of contemporary western cultures. Indeed, spirituality is sometimes contrasted attractively with religion, although this ... Leer más

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  • Anthropology and Development

    Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World

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