Working separately but eating together: Personhood, property, and power in conjugal relations

American Ethnologist

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 675-694

  Li, Tania Murray ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Gender; Personhood; Power; Property; Southeast Asia; Theory; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032272451     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.1998.25.4.675     Document Type: Article

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