The Past as a Scarce Resource

1981/06/01 by Arjun Appadurai · 477 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Archaeological Research and Protection #Computer science #Economics #Natural resource economics #Resource (disambiguation)

paper · doi:10.2307/2801395

published in Man 16(2), 201 (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland)

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