AAA 2005 Session: Calculating Compassion: Anthropologies of Aid, Poverty, and Charity
104th Annual Meeting
American Anthropological Association:
Bringing the Past into the Present
Nov 30 to Dec 4, 2005. Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington DC
Session Title: Calculating Compassion: Anthropologies of Aid, Poverty, and Charity
2:00pm - 03:45pm, Nov 30th 2005. Harding Room
Organizers: Maia Green (GPRG, U of Manchester UK) and Erica Bornstein (U Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Chair: Maia Green
Discussant: Angelique Haugerud (rci.rutgers.edu)
| Participant(s) | Affiliation | Title |
| Peter Redfield | UNC - Chapel Hill | Sacrifice, Triage and Global Humanitarianism |
| Erica Bornstein | U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Proof: Tsunami Relief and Trust in New Delhi |
| Jacob Copeman | U. of Cambridge UK - Trinity Hall | Centrifuging Blood in India |
| Maia Green | GPRG, U. of Manchester UK | Calculating Culture: Compassion and `Pure Capitalism' in Development Representations of the Social |
| David Mosse | SOAS, U. of London | Why better development policy design cannot solve the problems of poverty |