Political optics and the occlusion of intimate knowledge

American Anthropologist

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 369-376

  Herzfeld, Michael ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Complicity; Heritage; Modernism; State

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444613885     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2005.107.3.369     Document Type: Review

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