Witness: Humans, animals, and the politics of becoming

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 433-456

  Dave, Naisargi N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activism; Animals; India; Posthumanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907362567     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: 15481360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14506/ca29.3.01     Document Type: Article

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