Reproducing identity: Using images to promote pronatalism and sexual endogamy among Tibetan exiles in South Asia

Visual Anthropology Review

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 34-52

  Childs, Geoff ^a   Barkin, Gareth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Centre College

Author keywords

Family planning; India; Media production; Public health literature; Tibetans

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249135395     PISSN: 10587187     EISSN: 15487458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/var.2006.22.2.34     Document Type: Article

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