Introduction: Ghosts of Memory

Ghosts of Memory: Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-35

  Carsten, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropologic studies; HIV clinic; Indian polity; Kinship; Ritualistic fervor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889336896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470692301.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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