Best practices: Research, finance, and NGOs in Cairo

American Ethnologist

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 413-426

  Elyachar, Julia ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Anthropology of finance; Best practices; Development; Egypt; Knowledge practices; NGOs; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745927377     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2006.33.3.413     Document Type: Article

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