The dream of reason: An archaeology of the failures of modernity in Ethiopia

Journal of Social Archaeology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 175-201

  González Ruibal, Alfredo ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeology of the present; Borderlands; Communism; Globalization; Modernity; Rubbish; Ruins; War

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646696908     PISSN: 14696053     EISSN: 17412951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1469605306064239     Document Type: Article

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