State violence and the ethnographic encounter: Feminist research and racial embodiment

African and Black Diaspora

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 135-154

  Perry, Keisha Khan Y ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

activist anthropology; black women; Brazil; feminist research; violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856325925     PISSN: 17528631     EISSN: 1752864X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2011.629440     Document Type: Review

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