Comparisons: Possible and impossible

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 34, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-11

  Moore, Sally Falk ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Cultures of control; Development projects in Egypt; Forming the future; Indonesia; Limitations on intentional social direction; Malaysia; Modernization; The state as a composite; U.S. Northeast

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; ANTHROPOLOGY; MODERNIZATION;

EID: 27844449542     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.34.081804.120535     Document Type: Article

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