Unlikely alliances: Encounters between state Science, nature spirits, and indigenous industrial forestry in Mexico, 1926-2008

Current Anthropology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-101

  Mathews, Andrew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUP; FORESTRY; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; LEGAL ASPECT; MEXICO; POLLUTION; RELIGION; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER SUPPLY;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FORESTRY; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MEXICO; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION GROUPS; SPIRITUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 61949250378     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/595003     Document Type: Article

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