Styles, parables and scripts: Diversity and conformity in australian and finnish agriculture

Rural Society

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-8

  Vanclay, Frank ^a   Silvasti, Tiina ^b   Howden, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Department of Primary Industrie ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Cultural scripts; Culture; Farming subculture; Gender; Identity; Narratives; Parables; Self image; Styles of farming; Typologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009535666     PISSN: 10371656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/rsj.351.17.1.3     Document Type: Article

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