Money and the semiotics of ecosystem dissolution

Journal of Material Culture

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 143-162

  Hornborg, Alf ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cartesian dualism; Economic anthropology; Human ecology; Materialism; Modernity; Money; Semiotics; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; MODERNITY; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 0032833090     PISSN: 13591835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135918359900400202     Document Type: Article

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