Grounded utopian movements: Subjects of neglect

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 127-159

  Price, Charles ^a   Nonini, Donald ^a   Tree, Erich Fox ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ghost dance; Global justice movement; Grounded utopian movements; Long dur e maya movement; Rastafari; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 41249090423     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2008.0005     Document Type: Article

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