From 'Water Boiling in a Peruvian Town' to 'Letting them Die': Culture, Community Intervention, and the Metabolic Balance Between Patience and Zeal.
While the concept of culture has long been central to community psychology research and intervention, it has most frequently referred to the communities in which such work occurs. The purpose of this paper is to reframe this discussion by viewing community interventions as instances of intercultural...
| Published in: | American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 47; no. 1/2; pp. 58 - 69 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2011
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