Is social anthropology still worth the trouble? A response to some echoes from America

Ethnos

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 301-316

  Godelier, Maurice ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

Author keywords

Deconstruction; Dissolution; Postmodernism; Social Anthropology; Structuralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937321825     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141840050198009     Document Type: Article

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