Engendering transnational foodways: A case study of Southern Sudanese women in brooks, Alberta

Anthropologica

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 119-131

  Oleschuk, Merin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cosmopolitanism; Food; Gender; Identity; Refugees; Southern sudanese

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861870427     PISSN: 00035459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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