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Becoming organic: nature and agriculture in the Indian Himalaya

by Shaila Seshia Galvin, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2021, 320 pp., US$ 65.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780300215014

Andrew FlachsAnthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IndianaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 441-445 | Published online: 04 May 2022

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