Rumour and other narratives of political violence in West Papua

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-79

  Kirsch, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

'Lost tribes'; Ethnography; Human rights; Political violence; Refugees; Rumour; The 'primitive'; West Papua (Irian Jaya, Indonesia)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038131737     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X020220010301     Document Type: Review

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