Poverty

A Companion to Moral Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 283-301

  Englund, Harri ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Individualism, ethical and normative, and liberal egalitarianism erected; Malawi serving a rhetorical, world poverty and threat posed to the West; Malawi's spoken language and lingua franca, and concept of poverty umphawi; Obligation as duty or responsibility, exercising liberal theorists; Obligation, a classic topic in anthropology in studies of kinship; Severe poverty in the contemporary world, an avoidable predicament; Threats, obligations, and autonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877042956     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118290620.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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