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14 novembre 2014
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Johannes Paulmann, « Anthropology and Humanitarianism - Reading by a Historian », Humanitarianism & Human Rights, ID : 10.58079/pisr
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Miriam Ticktin, “Transnational Humanitarianism”, Annual Review of Anthropology 43 (2014). This is a useful review article on how anthropologists have studied humanitarianism since the late 1980s. It provides valuable insight into the epistemology of the discipline but also raises questions which may interest others, such as historians like myself. One of Ticktin’s main contentions is that the study of humanitarianism was central to a shift in legal and medical anthropology, from analysing cr...