Let us make God our banker: Ethics, temporality, and agency in a Ugandan charity home

American Ethnologist

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 624-636

  Scherz, China ^a  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Agency; Charity; Christianity; Ethics; Temporality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887209178     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/amet.12043     Document Type: Article

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