Moonshine, money, and the politics of liquidity in rural Russia

American Ethnologist

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-81

  Rogers, Douglas ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Currencies; Exchange; Foreign exchange markets; Labor; Liquidity; Postsocialism; Rural economies

Indexed keywords

EID: 14944384502     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2005.32.1.63     Document Type: Review

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