Expert witness: Notes toward revisiting the politics of listening

Anthropology and Humanism

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 133-144

  Angel Ajani, Asale ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activist anthropology; Ethnographic authority; Experience; Prisons; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009985217     PISSN: 15599167     EISSN: 15481409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ahu.2004.29.2.133     Document Type: Article

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