Land, stories, and resources: Discourse and entification in Onabasulu modernity

American Anthropologist

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 88-97

  Ernst, Thomas M ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognized models; Discursive practices; Onabasulu (Papua New Guinea); Political ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033450595     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.1999.101.1.88     Document Type: Article

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