Patterns of reinterpretation: Trader-tourism in the Balkans (Bulgaria) as a picaresque metaphorical enactment of post-totalitarianism

American Ethnologist

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 762-782

  Konstantinov, Yulian ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Balkans; Bulgaria; Economic anthropology; Trader tourism; Transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030363091     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.1996.23.4.02a00050     Document Type: Article

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