Neoliberal associations: Property, company, and family in the Argentine oil fields

American Ethnologist

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 701-716

  Shever, Elana ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Argentina; Corporations; Kinship; Neoliberal; Petroleum; Property; Structural adjustment

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049158692     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00106.x     Document Type: Article

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