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The Need to Help

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

The Need to Help

By Liisa H. Malkki

1 Ratings • 4.0 of 5

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About the book

In The Need to Help Liisa H. Malkki shifts the focus of the study of humanitarian intervention from aid recipients to aid workers themselves. The anthropological commitment to understand the motivations and desires of these professionals and how they imagine themselves in the world "out there," led Malkki to spend more than a decade interviewing members of the international Finnish Red Cross, as well as observing Finns who volunteered from their homes through gifts of handwork. The need to help,...Show more

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ISBN

9780822359128

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published year

2015

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1

Original title

The Need to Help

Format

Hardcover

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