Biodynamic farmers in Ireland. Transforming society through purity, solitude and bearing witness?

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 45, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 98-114

  McMahon, Naoimh ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ORGANIC FARMING; RELIGION; RURAL SOCIETY; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 17644398442     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2005.00293.x     Document Type: Article

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