Skinship: Touchability as a virtue in East-Central India

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 179-209

  Gregory, Chris ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

India; Kinship; Modes of address; Senses; Skinship; Touchability; Value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84917249867     PISSN: 25751433     EISSN: 20491115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14318/hau1.1.007     Document Type: Review

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