Negotiating culture: Conflict and consensus in U.S. garage-sale bargaining

Ethnology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 237-252

  Herrmann, Gretchen M ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARGAINING; CULTURAL TRADITION; GOODS EXCHANGE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141649182     PISSN: 00141828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3773802     Document Type: Article

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