Learning to see value: Exchange and the politics of vision in a Chinese craft

Ethnos

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 229-250

  Gowlland, Geoffrey ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; Craft; Senses; Value; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249087228     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141840902940484     Document Type: Article

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