Social and river networks for the trees: Wounaan's riverine rhizomic cosmos and arboreal conservation

American Anthropologist

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 456-467

  Runk, Julie Velásquez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Forests; Politics of knowledge; Rivers; Wounaan

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349096907     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: 15481433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01155.x     Document Type: Article

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