The way of the Buffaloes: Trade and sacrifice in Northern Laos

Ethnology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 291-312

  Sprenger, Guido ^a  

^a ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Exchange; Lamet; Laos; Sacrifice; Trade

Indexed keywords

GOODS EXCHANGE; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MARKET;

ASIA; EURASIA; LAOS; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

BUBALUS;

EID: 33748435766     PISSN: 00141828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3774092     Document Type: Article

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