Seeing like a system: Luhmann for anthropologists

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-116

  Gershon, Ilana ^a  

^a EMERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autopoesis; Communication; Cybernetics; Luhmann; Reflexivity; Social systems; System differentiation; Systems theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845342382     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499605053993     Document Type: Article

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