Hybridity, vacuity, and blockage: Visions of Chaos from anthropological theory, island Melanesia, and central Africa

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 190-216

  Scott, Michael W ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNICITY; SOCIAL THEORY; VIOLENCE;

AFRICA; BURUNDI; CENTRAL AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; MELANESIA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; RWANDA; SOLOMON ISLANDS [(ISG) MELANESIA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 12344310477     PISSN: 00104175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0010417505000083     Document Type: Article

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