Producing cosmopolitanism at the borderlands: Lonely planeteers and "Local" cosmopolitans in Southwest China

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 615-650

  Notar, Beth E ^a  

^a Trinity College

Author keywords

China; Cosmopolitanism; Ethnic minorities; Place; Production; Travel

Indexed keywords

EID: 52649092840     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.0.0022     Document Type: Article

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