Biopower: Blood, Kinship, and Eugenic Marriage

A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 327-354

  Robertson, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopower; Blood; Eugenic marriage; Kinship; Nationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889407113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996966.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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