Frontiers, sovereignty, and marital tactics: Comparisons from the borneo highlands and the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore growth triangle

Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-17

  Amster, Matthew H ^a   Lindquist, Johan ^b  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Indonesia; Malaysia; National borders; Singapore; Sovereignty; Transnational marriage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995782851     PISSN: 14442213     EISSN: 17409314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14442210500074846     Document Type: Article

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