EL Campo: Faciality and structural violence in farm labor camps

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 589-629

  Benson, Peter ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Defacement; Levinas; Migration; The Face; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349144798     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: 15481360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2008.00020.x     Document Type: Article

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