Mr Tati's holiday and João's safari - seeing the world through transplant tourism

Body and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 55-92

  Scheper Hughes, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazil; human trafficking; mobility; neoliberal globalization; South Africa; tourism; Transplant

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958707700     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X11402858     Document Type: Article

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