This review traces anthropological studies of humanitarianism starting in the late 1980s,
when humanitarianism began to take shape as a particular moral and political project …

This review examines how international development has been studied by anthropologists,
both as a particular form of institutional practice and as the terms of global economic and …

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 …

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Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center
stage in struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor …

The ability to respond to the pain of a suffering world means neither to believe in oneself
blindly nor to doubt oneself into paralysis. This subtle truth emerging from the epoch of …

NGOs set out to save lives, relieve suffering, and service basic human needs. They are
committed to serving people across national borders and without regard to race, ethnicity …

Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of
financial inclusion—dubbed" banking the unbanked"—which aimed to extend credit to black …

In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese
colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of …

Life in Crisis tells the story of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders or MSF)
and its effort to “save lives” on a global scale. Begun in 1971 as a French alternative to the …