Ontography and alterity: Defining anthropological truth

Social Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 80-93

  Holbraad, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alterity; Anthropological truth; Cuba; If Divination; Negation; Oracles; Redefinition

Indexed keywords

EID: 73349092797     PISSN: 0155977X     EISSN: 15585727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/sa.2009.530205     Document Type: Article

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