Of temporal politics and demographic anxieties: "Young Mothers" in demographic predictions and social life in Vanuatu

Anthropologica

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 317-328

  Widmer, Alexandra ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biopolitics; Demography; Geopolitics; Reproduction; Time; Vanuatu

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894277420     PISSN: 00035459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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