Reassembling individual subjects: Events and decisions in troubled times

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 357-380

  Humphrey, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event; History; Individuality; Multiplicity; Singularity; Subject

Indexed keywords

EID: 61149568944     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499608096644     Document Type: Review

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