Cobo and tabua in Fiji: Two forms of cultural currency in an economy of sentiment

American Ethnologist

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 46-62

  Arno, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Currency; Fiji; Intellectual property; Linguistic anthropology; Political economy; Sentiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 14944348250     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2005.32.1.46     Document Type: Review

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