A collective ethnographer: Fieldwork experience in the Brazilian Northeast

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Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-97

  Sigaud, Lygia ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Brazilian Northeast; Collective ethnography; Land occupations; Law; Strikes; Sugarcane plantations

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949095032     PISSN: 05390184     EISSN: 14617412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0539018407085750     Document Type: Article

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