Islands as places of being and belonging

Geographical Review

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 260-273

  Olwig, Karen Fog ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Cultural identity; Cultural site; Ethnic categories; Family; Field site; Migration; Transnational communities

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL IDENTITY; ETHNICITY; ISLAND STATE; RESEARCH WORK;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 35448990168     PISSN: 00167428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2007.tb00402.x     Document Type: Article

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