"Stretching the friendship": On the politics of replicating a dairy in East Timor

Science Technology and Human Values

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 668-701

  Shepherd, Chris J ^a   Gibbs, Martin R ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Development; East Timor; Heterogeneous sociotechnical assemblage; Postcolonial technoscience; Symmetrical anthropology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749569735     PISSN: 01622439     EISSN: 15528251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0162243906291866     Document Type: Review

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