Oil without conflict?: The anthropology of industrialisation in Northern Russia

Crude Domination: An Anthropology of Oil

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 243-269

  Stammler, Florian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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