"Hot money" and daring consumption in a northern Malagasy sapphire-mining town

American Ethnologist

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 290-305

  Walsh, Andrew ^a  

^a MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consumption; Madagascar; Masculinity; Money; Risk; Sapphire mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037484269     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2003.30.2.290     Document Type: Review

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