Offshore work: Oil, modularity, and the how of capitalism in Equatorial Guinea

American Ethnologist

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 692-709

  Appel, Hannah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Equatorial Guinea; Modularity; Oil; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868324524     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01389.x     Document Type: Article

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