Toward an anthropology of prisons

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 30, Issue , 2001, Pages 65-83

  Rhodes, Lorna A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography of incarceration; History of confinement; Imprisonment; Institutions; Subjection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039438027     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.30.1.65     Document Type: Article

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