The poetics and politics of recognition: Diasporan Sikhs in pluralist polities

American Ethnologist

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 738-762

  Dusenbery, Verne A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Canada; Multiculturalism; Nationalism; Sikh diaspora; Singapore

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031319020     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.1997.24.4.738     Document Type: Article

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