Buses in Bongoland: Seductive analytics and the occult

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 107-132

  Sanders, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critique; Epistemology; Explanation; History; Modernity; Neoliberalism; Occult; Post Socialism; Tanzania; Transport; Witchcraft

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949871653     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499608090787     Document Type: Review

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