The end of anthropology, again: On the future of an in/discipline

American Anthropologist

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 524-538

  Comaroff, John ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

disciplinarity; ethnography; spatial and temporal scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649744163     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: 15481433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2010.01273.x     Document Type: Article

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