Bodies, heat, and taboos: Conceptualizing modern personhood in the South African lowveld

Ethnology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 189-207

  Niehaus, Isak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL IDENTITY; CULTURAL TRADITION;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0036626370     PISSN: 00141828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4153025     Document Type: Article

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