The cognitive machinery of power: Reflections on Valeri's The Forest of Taboos

American Ethnologist

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 372-380

  Lansing, J Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Commodity fetishism; Consumer society; Cosmologies of capitalism; Frankfurt school; Potlatch; Repressive regimes; Subject formation; Taboo

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141953059     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2003.30.3.372     Document Type: Article

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