Histories in red: Ways of seeing lynching in Ecuador

American Ethnologist

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-39

  Krupa, Christopher ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecuador; Indigenous peoples; Latin America; Lynching; Media; Violence; Visuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 76449089563     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.01107.x     Document Type: Article

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