"We have to think like capitalists but continue being socialists": Medicalized subjectivities, emergent capital, and socialist entrepreneurs in post-Soviet Cuba

American Ethnologist

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 259-274

  Brotherton, P Sean ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bodily practices; Capital; Cuba; Socialism; State; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 45749132582     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00033.x     Document Type: Article

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