How Native Is a “Native” Anthropologist?

1993/09/01 by Kirin Narayan · 1,159 citations
Social Sciences · #African Studies and Ethnography #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Anthropology #Ethnology #Geography #History #Native american #Sociology #Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

paper · doi:10.1525/aa.1993.95.3.02a00070

published in American Anthropologist 95(3), 671-686 (Wiley)

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Abstract

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