Small bodies, large contribution: Children's work in the tobacco plantations of lombok, Indonesia

Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-51

  Amigó, María Florencia ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agency; Children; Ethnography; Households; Indonesia; Tobacco growing; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 76049089731     PISSN: 14442213     EISSN: 17409314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14442210903540393     Document Type: Article

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