Patriarchy through lamentation in Azerbaijan

American Ethnologist

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-94

  Goluboff, Sascha L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Azerbaijan; Death; Emotion; Feminist ethnography; Mountain Jews; Mourning; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349100413     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00007.x     Document Type: Article

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