Why grow cash crops? Subsistence farming and crop commercialization in the Kolli Hills, South India

American Anthropologist

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 363-369

  Finnis, Elizabeth ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agency; Crop commercialization; Environmental Change; South India

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744544714     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2006.108.2.363     Document Type: Article

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