“When do you think the world will end?.”: Globalization, apocalypticism, and the moral perils of fieldwork in “last New Guinea”

Anthropology and Humanism

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 6-30

  Robbins, Joel ^a  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0001906544     PISSN: 15599167     EISSN: 15481409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ahu.1997.22.1.6     Document Type: Article

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