Communities of complicity: Notes on state formation and local sociality in rural China

American Ethnologist

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 539-549

  Steinmüller, Hans ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

corruption; cultural intimacy; fengshui; rural China; state formation; state involution

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954713624     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01271.x     Document Type: Article

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