Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs

Description: Anthropological field studies of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in their unique cultural and political contexts.

Review Quotes: "This book is well written and easy to read. It is valuable for scholars in different fields, practitioners, researchers and students of social sciences. It will provide them with case studies that will help them better understand the roles and issues faced by NGOs and people working in the field. It can be used a foundation for the study of NGOs from an anthropological point of view and can add value to classroom discussion to show the opportunities and constraints that NGOs face when interacting with their environment."
--Voluntas

"Cultures of Doing Good makes substantial contributions to anthropological works on development, humanitarianism and civil society, interdisciplinary literature on NGOs, and--given that the NGO phenomenon touches so many of us--to the discipline of anthropology as a whole."
--Julie Hemment, author of Youth Politics in Putin's Russia: Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs and Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, Aid, and NGOs