Agency, power and personhood: Discourses of gender and violence in a fishing community in south India

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 227-248

  Busby, Cecilia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Social Anthropology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Gender; Person; South India; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033242261     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X9901900302     Document Type: Article

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