"You can't buy a vote": Meanings of money in a Mumbai election

American Ethnologist

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 617-634

  Björkman, Lisa ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84923549469     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/amet.12101     Document Type: Article

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