Does meat come from animals? A multispecies approach to classification and belonging in highland Guatemala

American Ethnologist

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 309-323

  Yates Doerr, Emily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Belonging; Categories; Everyday life; Guatemala; Multispecies; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928538750     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/amet.12132     Document Type: Article

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