Animal spirits and mimetic affinities: The semiotics of intimacy in African human/animal identities

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 30-47

  Galaty, John G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Identities; metonyms and metaphors; pastoralists; semiotics; similitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897796889     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: 14603721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X13510189     Document Type: Article

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