Image of a secretary: A metapragmatic morality for post-Soviet Capitalism;Imagem de uma secretária: Uma moralidade meta-pragmática para o Capitalismo Pós-Soviético

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 725-758

  Cohen, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Language ideology; Morality; Neoliberalism; Postsocialism; Russia; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883167472     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: 15341518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2013.0036     Document Type: Article

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