Performing nature at world's ends

Ethnos

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-18

  Abram, Simone ^a   Lien, Marianne Elisabeth ^b  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Material semiotics; Nature; Ontology; Performativity; Science; Wilderness

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952927177     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2010.544855     Document Type: Article

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