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Bronkema, F. David.

Development as a political gift: Donor/recipient relationships, religion, knowledge and praxis in a Protestant development NGO in Honduras.

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Title/Author:	Development as a political gift: Donor/recipient relationships, religion, knowledge and praxis in a Protestant development NGO in Honduras.
Author:	Bronkema, F. David.
Description:	468 p.
Notes:	Director: Enrique J. Mayer.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4072.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-11A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3194628
ISBN:	9780542392948

Development as a political gift: Donor/recipient relationships, religion, knowledge and praxis in a Protestant development NGO in Honduras.
Bronkema, F. David.

Development as a political gift: Donor/recipient relationships, religion, knowledge and praxis in a Protestant development NGO in Honduras. - 468 p.

Director: Enrique J. Mayer.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2005.

A review of the anthropological and practitioner literature on development shows that the political and religious nature of development has been substantially under analyzed. Development is not necessarily the "anti-politics" or "depoliticizing" machine described by Ferguson (1991), and religion has and continues to play a major role in the creation and sustenance of development efforts, including its politicization.

ISBN: 9780542392948Subjects--Topical Terms:

212460
Anthropology, Cultural.

Development as a political gift: Donor/recipient relationships, religion, knowledge and praxis in a Protestant development NGO in Honduras.
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520 # $a An ethnography of the Christian Commission for Development (CCD), a Honduran Protestant development nongovernmental organization (NGO) brings out these points clearly. CCD's identity is rooted in the legacies of a highly politicized approach to social change and network of relationships inherited from the history of Protestant missions to Latin America that were coordinated, rationalized, and "nationalized" through the efforts of the Committee on Cooperation in Latin America (CCLA). CCD's staff consciously sought to convert the communities to a praxis based on its political view of the world, a view underpinned by Liberation Theology that drew as much from social science analyses of power as it did from the Bible, using the gifts of material resources and projects to get the community to accept the political ones.
520 # $a Approaches to understanding development would be well served by adopting a framework that conceives of development as a system of gift giving, albeit quite different from the well-known systems of exchange analyzed by Mauss in The Gift (1950). This framework should be built around four main variables: the identity of donors and recipients, their motives and interests, the nature of the gifts being borne, and the way they are proffered and received. Approaching development in this way requires a historical and contextual approach to analyses, the development of a practice theory of organizations, an understanding that political and religious knowledge is and can be a principal development gift, and that donors wield the ultimate power in this system of "downward giving."
520 # $a Because of the ambiguity of political and social science knowledge in terms of its usefulness to bring about predicted outcomes when applied, it is unclear whether a politicized development approach is superior to a depoliticized one, and humility is called for when it is used.
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