Institutional altruism, invisible hands, and Good Samaritans : an anthropological examination of Hong Kong's Community Chest charity organization

The discipline of social anthropology has been remarkably inattentive to the phenomenon and organizational practices of 'charity', and, associatedly, has been non-discursive in its treatment of social welfare. In this thesis, I endeavour to indicate that this disciplinary ignorance of char...

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Main Author: Law, Wun-Sheng
Published: SOAS, University of London 1997
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263723