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An Anthropological Perspective on the Timeline of Humanitarian Interventions

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This chapter deals with the main temporal stages of humanitarian programmes and the interlinked contexts within which these stages unfold, proceeding from early identification of humanitarian risks to the linking with development execution of humanitarian aid as a participative and empowering effort.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Zhou et al. (2014), pp. 86–90; http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v509/n7498/full/nature13265.html.

  2. 2.

    Chagnon (2013).

  3. 3.

    European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid, p. 24.

  4. 4.

    UNISDR, Global Assessment Report 2015, http://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/gar.

  5. 5.

    Boon (1982), p. 47.

  6. 6.

    Carbonell et al. (2005), pp. 111–137.

  7. 7.

    McGuire (2015), pp. 26–27.

  8. 8.

    Godelier (2011), p. 123f.

  9. 9.

    Ervin (2002), p. 108.

  10. 10.

    I.e., the difference between culture-specific and universal models of understanding.

  11. 11.

    Hoben (1982), pp. 349–375.

  12. 12.

    Barnard and Spencer (eds) ([1996] 2003).

  13. 13.

    Minn (2007).

  14. 14.

    Hyder (2007).

  15. 15.

    Wayman (2011), http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-worlds-muddiest-disaster-1603529/?no-ist; A.R. Fitrianto, Shrimp Farmers’ Innovation In Coping With The Disaster (A Case Study In Sidoarjo Mud Volcano Disaster Toward Shrimp Farmers’ Responses), http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212567112003322.

  16. 16.

    Farmer (2011) and Schuller (2010).

  17. 17.

    Minn (2007).

  18. 18.

    Ervin (2002), p. 196.

  19. 19.

    O’Neill (2015), pp. 34–35.

  20. 20.

    Geertz (1983), p. 67.

  21. 21.

    Lewis (2006), p. 440.

  22. 22.

    Bornstein and Redfield (2010), p. 26.

  23. 23.

    The royal palace in Surakarta/Solo.

  24. 24.

    Pemberton (1994), p. 67.

  25. 25.

    Boon (1982), p. 47.

  26. 26.

    Hyder (2007).

  27. 27.

    Ibid.

  28. 28.

    Ibid.

  29. 29.

    Cortina (2010), p. 130.

  30. 30.

    Sen (2005), p. 237.

  31. 31.

    Cortina (2010), p. 58.

  32. 32.

    NOHA, Anthropology in Humanitarian Assistance, 1998, 2nd edn., p. 4.

  33. 33.

    Fassin (2012).

  34. 34.

    Watson (2012), Burlington, 2nd edn., Ch. 8.

  35. 35.

    NOHA, Anthropology in Humanitarian Assistance, 1998, 2nd edn., p. 10.

  36. 36.

    Cortina (2010), p. 94.

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Gumucio-Castellon, J.C. (2018). An Anthropological Perspective on the Timeline of Humanitarian Interventions. In: Heintze, HJ., Thielbörger, P. (eds) International Humanitarian Action. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14454-2_18

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