The anthropology of public policy: Shifting terrains

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 29, Issue , 2000, Pages 107-124

  Okongwu, Anne Francis ^a   Mencher, Joan P ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental policy; Global agriculture; Globalization; Social inequality; Social welfare policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000839078     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.29.1.107     Document Type: Article

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