Radical worlds: The anthropology of incommensurability and inconceivability

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 30, Issue , 2001, Pages 319-334

  Povinelli, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Language; Liberal diaspora; New social movements; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012326049     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.30.1.319     Document Type: Article

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