Japanese precious wood and the paradoxes of added value

Geographical Review

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 375-395

  Patchell, Jerry ^a   Hayter, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Institutionalism; Meiboku; Rationalization; Value; Washitsu tokonoma

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001165182     PISSN: 00167428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.1997.tb00080.x     Document Type: Article

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