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Title Forces of compassion : humanitarianism between ethics and politics / edited by Erica Bornstein and Peter Redfield
Edition First edition
Published Santa Fe, N.M. : School for Advanced Research Press, 2011

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Description xi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.An Introduction to the Anthropology of Humanitarianism / Erica Bornstein -- pt. I Moral and Empirical Engagements -- 2.Noli Me Tangere: The Moral Untouchability of Humanitarianism / Didier Fassin -- 3.The Impossible Problem of Neutrality / Peter Redfield -- 4.The Anthropologist and His Poor / Harri Englund -- pt. II Cosmologies of Humanitarianism -- 5.Islamic Humanitarianism in Adversarial Context / Jonathan Benthall -- 6.The Value of Orphans / Erica Bornstein -- pt. III Humanitarian Bodies -- 7.Screams, Cries, and Whispers: Traveling Heroin Therapeutics and Humanitarian Aid in Post-socialist China / Sandra Teresa Hyde -- 8.From Redundancy to Recognition: Transnational Humanitarianism and the Production of Nonmoderns / Miriam Ticktin -- pt. IV Political Limits and Stakes -- 9.The Humanitarian Circuit: Relief Work, Development Assistance, and CARE in Gaza, 1955-67 / Ilana Feldman -- 10.Humanitarianism and Its Discontents / Mariella Pandolfi
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-290) and index
Subject Humanitarian assistance -- Political aspects.
Humanitarian assistance.
Humanitarianism.
International relief.
Author Bornstein, Erica, 1963-
Redfield, Peter, 1965-
LC no. 2010045212
ISBN 1934691402 (alk. paper)
9781934691403 (alk. paper)
Other Titles Humanitarianism between ethics and politics