Money that burns like oil: A Sri Lankan cultural logic of morality and agency

Ethnology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-184

  Gamburd, Michele Ruth ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMESTIC WORK; LABOR MIGRATION; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 4544316928     PISSN: 00141828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3773952     Document Type: Article

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