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Believing that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality
and fosters dependence, many international development
organizations have increasingly sought to replace material aid with
efforts to build self-reliance and local institutions. But in some
cultures - like those in rural Uganda, where Having People, Having
Heart takes place - people see this shift not as an effort toward
empowerment but as a suspect refusal to redistribute wealth.
Exploring this conflict, China Scherz balances the negative
assessments of charity that have led to this shift with the
viewpoints of those who actually receive aid. Through detailed
studies of two different orphan support organizations in Uganda,
Scherz shows how many Ugandans view material forms of Catholic
charity as deeply intertwined with their own ethics of care and
exchange. With a detailed examination of this overlooked
relationship in hand, she reassesses the generally assumed paradox
of material aid as both promising independence and preventing it.
The result is a sophisticated demonstration of the powerful role
that anthropological concepts of exchange, value, personhood, and
religion play in the politics of international aid and development.
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