The eruption of tradition? On ordinality and calculation

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 123-131

  Guyer, Jane I ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

calculation; CEO salaries; Great Chain of Being; horse racing; number; ordinality; value

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956851381     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499610365378     Document Type: Review

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