The Whole beyond Holism: Gambling, Divination, and Ethnography in Cuba

Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 67-85

  Holbraad, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"Anything you need to know is in If "; "Don't worry, a year goes quickly enough"; "first runner up" and "second runner up"; Anthropology's Gambles; The Whole Beyond Holism; Wholes Produced: Gambling in Havana; Wholes Reduced, or Holism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864103045     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324426.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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