Translation, value, and space: Theorizing an ethnographic and engaged environmental anthropology

American Anthropologist

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 632-642

  West, Paige ^a  

^a Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Environment; Neoliberalism; Papua New Guinea; Personhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 31144475811     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2005.107.4.632     Document Type: Article

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