Asian anthropologies and anthropologies in Asia: An introductory essay

Asian Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 3-39

  Ben Ari, Eyal ^a   van Bremen, Jan ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203308141     Document Type: Chapter

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