A Mayan ontology of poultry: Selfhood, affect, animals, and ethnography

Language in Society

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 427-454

  Kockelman, Paul ^a  

^a Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Animals; Chickens; Linguistic anthropology; Maya; Mesoamerica; Ontology; Political economy; Q'eqchi'; Selfhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053474792     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: 14698013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404511000467     Document Type: Article

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