Boasian Legacies in Linguistic Anthropology: A Centenary Review of 2011

American Anthropologist

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 203-216

  Ball, Christopher ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Franz Boas; Intertextuality; Race; Relativity; Ritual performativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862243861     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: 15481433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2012.01419.x     Document Type: Article

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