Producing affect: Transnational volunteerism in a Malaysian orangutan rehabilitation center

American Ethnologist

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 673-687

  Parreñas, Rheana Juno Salazar ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Borneo; Care; Gender; Human Animal Relations; Southeast Asia; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868317113     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01387.x     Document Type: Article

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