Ethics and the "rough ground" of the everyday: The overlappings of life in postinvasion Iraq

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 42-58

  Al Mohammad, Hayder ^a   Peluso, Daniela ^b  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basra; Ethics; Everyday; Iraq; Moral anthropology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911080617     PISSN: 20491115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14318/hau2.2.004     Document Type: Review

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