Gifts money cannot buy

Social Anthropology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 397-410

  Strathern, Marilyn ^a  

^a GIRTON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altruism; Money; Organ and tissue donation; Sacrifice; The gift

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868516997     PISSN: 09640282     EISSN: 14698676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8676.2012.00224.x     Document Type: Article

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