The Gift - Marcel Mauss and international aid

Journal of Comparative Social Welfare

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 189-205

  Kowalski, Robert ^a  

^a Instituto Socioambiental e Dos Recursos Hídricos   (Brazil)

Author keywords

development assistance; double binds; modernity; paradox; reciprocity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859357102     PISSN: 17486831     EISSN: 1748684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17486831.2011.595069     Document Type: Article

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