The Need to Help: The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism

by Liisa H. Malkki

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822359324
• ISBN13: 9780822359326
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"