Technologies of truth in the anthropology of conflict: AES/APLA Presidential Address, 2013

American Ethnologist

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-16

  Merry, Sally Engle ^a   Coutin, Susan Bibler ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender violence; Governmentality; Human rights; Immigration; Knowledge production; Legal anthropology; Science and technology studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894100237     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/amet.12055     Document Type: Article

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