Planet M: The intense abstraction of Marilyn Strathern

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 371-394

  Holbraad, Martin ^a   Pedersen, Morten Axel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Comparison; Ethnography; Post plural anthropology; Representation; Temporality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77049114074     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499609360117     Document Type: Review

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