Liisa H. Malkki is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is the author of Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania, and the coauthor of Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork.
Liisa H. Malkki is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is the author of Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania, and the coauthor of Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork.
Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Need, Imagination, and the Care of the Self 1 1. Professionals Abroad: Occupational Solidarity and International Desire as Humanitarian Motives 23 2. Impossible Situations: Affective Impasses and Their Afterlives in Humanitarian and Ethnographic Fieldwork 53 3. Figurations of the Human: Children, Humanity, and the Infantilization of Peace 77 4. Bear Humanity: Children, Animals, and Other Power Objects of the Humanitarian Imagination 105 5. Homemade Humanitarianism: Knitting and Loneliness 133 6. A Zealous Humanism and Its Limits: Sacrifice and the Hazards of Neutrality 165 Conclusion. The Power of the Mere: Humanitarianism as Domestic Art and Imaginative Politics 199 Notes 209 References 235 Index 267
Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Need, Imagination, and the Care of the Self 1 1. Professionals Abroad: Occupational Solidarity and International Desire as Humanitarian Motives 23 2. Impossible Situations: Affective Impasses and Their Afterlives in Humanitarian and Ethnographic Fieldwork 53 3. Figurations of the Human: Children, Humanity, and the Infantilization of Peace 77 4. Bear Humanity: Children, Animals, and Other Power Objects of the Humanitarian Imagination 105 5. Homemade Humanitarianism: Knitting and Loneliness 133 6. A Zealous Humanism and Its Limits: Sacrifice and the Hazards of Neutrality 165 Conclusion. The Power of the Mere: Humanitarianism as Domestic Art and Imaginative Politics 199 Notes 209 References 235 Index 267
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