Sara Ann Swenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3891065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Ann Swenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Swenson |
| SIGNATURE | SWENSON S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Near Light We Shine
Buddhists in Vietnam are meeting humanitarian needs by popularizing charity. Vietnam’s rapid urbanization has intensified social service demands while straining public infrastructure. In response, charity volunteers are building roads, subsidizing medicine, and giving away food. This book draws on two years of ethnographic research conducted in Hồ Chí Minh City to analyze why and how people join these grassroots movements. Volunteers adapt practi…
Near Light We Shine
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Fraud at the Children’s Festival
Youth charities have served as social networks where young people seek friendships, sexual connections, and romance with others who share their values. Through volunteering, urban youth created and modeled moral lifestyles for one another, both through organizing events like a Children’s Festival for disadvantaged youth and through negotiating challenges like fraud and embezzlement that can arise during these events. This chapter follows two orga…
The Merit of Meat
In this article, I use Emile Durkheim ’s theory of “social facts” to examine Buddhist charity movements in Vietnam. Durkheim defines social facts as the beliefs and customs required to belong in a community. I use Durkheim's theory to analyze how volunteer groups develop Buddhist cosmologies with distinct social facts about human subjectivity, ethics, and karma. My study traces how social facts cause different programming outcomes like decisions …
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The Merit of Meat
In this article, I use Emile Durkheim ’s theory of “social facts” to examine Buddhist charity movements in Vietnam. Durkheim defines social facts as the beliefs and customs required to belong in a community. I use Durkheim's theory to analyze how volunteer groups develop Buddhist cosmologies with distinct social facts about human subjectivity, ethics, and karma. My study traces how social facts cause different programming outcomes like decisions …
Near Light We Shine
Buddhists in Vietnam are meeting humanitarian needs by popularizing charity. Vietnam’s rapid urbanization has intensified social service demands while straining public infrastructure. In response, charity volunteers are building roads, subsidizing medicine, and giving away food. This book draws on two years of ethnographic research conducted in Hồ Chí Minh City to analyze why and how people join these grassroots movements. Volunteers adapt practi…
Near Light We Shine
People (By Group)
Fraud at the Children’s Festival
Youth charities have served as social networks where young people seek friendships, sexual connections, and romance with others who share their values. Through volunteering, urban youth created and modeled moral lifestyles for one another, both through organizing events like a Children’s Festival for disadvantaged youth and through negotiating challenges like fraud and embezzlement that can arise during these events. This chapter follows two orga…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Buddhism (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 work) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 work) · Altruism (biology) (1 work) · Australian History and Society (1 work) · Beijing (1 work) · Buddhism (1 work) · Compassion (1 work) · Disadvantaged (1 work)