‘Diamond Time’: Constructing Time, Constructing Markets in the Diamond Trade

Time & Society

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 25-38

  Westwood, Sallie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

consumption; diamonds; identities; romance; time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036249352     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X02011001002     Document Type: Article

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