Indian giver or Nobel savage: Duping, assumptions of identity, and other double entendres in Rigoberta Menchú Tum's Stoll/en past

American Ethnologist

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 303-331

  Nelson, Diane M ^a  

^a LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Gender; Globalization; Identity; Mayan organizing; U.S. Anthropology; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035534228     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2001.28.2.303     Document Type: Article

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