Towards Comparative Measures of Circulation: Insights from Indigenous Australia.
ABSTRACT Circulation and other forms of temporary movement are of rising importance in the context of overall population mobility. Despite this, analysis is constrained by a lack of appropriate data and techniques for developing summary measures. Ethnographic methods have afforded useful insights in...
| Publicado en: | Population Space & Place Vol. 18; no. 5; pp. 567 - 579 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep/Oct2012
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