Naming resistance: Ethnoghaphers, dissidents, and states

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-17

  Coutin, Susan Bibler ^a   Hirsch, Susan F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Fieldwork; Reflexivity; Repression; Resistance; Writing

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH; MILITARY RULE; POLITICAL DISSIDENCE;

ARGENTINA; KENYA; USA;

EID: 0031845804     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3317600     Document Type: Article

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