AID as Gift: an initial approach

The article proposes that some of the key practices in the area of international cooperation for development can be better understood in terms of a gift regime. To this end, it compares ethnographic data relating to the modus operandi of the aid sector in East Timor with the legacies of Marcel Mauss...

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Main Authors: Kelly Cristiane da Silva, Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2008-01-01
Series:Mana
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Online Access:http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-93132008000100004&lng=en&tlng=en