Identifying and engendering the forms of emergent civil societies: New directions in political anthropology

Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-12

  Coombe, Rosemary J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 1842793952     PISSN: 10816976     EISSN: 15552934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/pol.1997.20.1.1     Document Type: Article

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