Engendering gesture: Gender performativity and bodily regimes from new Ireland

Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-16

  Eves, Richard ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body; Gender; Movement; Papua new guinea; Pentecostal christianity

Indexed keywords

EID: 76049085049     PISSN: 14442213     EISSN: 17409314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14442210903527820     Document Type: Article

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