Agricultural deskilling and the spread of genetically modified cotton in Warangal

Current Anthropology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-103

  Stone, Glenn Davis ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/508689     Document Type: Review

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