Disengagement and desire: The tactics of everyday life

American Ethnologist

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 139-159

  Josephides, Lisette ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change; Gender; Language and interaction; Papua New Guinea; Practices; Tactics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033246377     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.1999.26.1.139     Document Type: Article

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