Through the looking glass: U.S. aid to El Salvador and the politics of national identity

American Ethnologist

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 276-293

  Quan, Adán ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development aid; El salvador; Elites; Globalization; National identity; Neoliberalism; U.S. Foreign policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 19744379272     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2005.32.2.276     Document Type: Article

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