What is context?: An ethnophilosophical account

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 149-169

  Huen, Chi W ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Context; culture; ethnography; knowledge practice; making explicit; Marilyn Strathern

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650859607     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499609105475     Document Type: Article

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