Excess: The struggle for expenditure on a Caribbean sugar plantation

Current Anthropology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 609-628

  Martínez, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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EID: 77958133044     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655863     Document Type: Article

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