Doing violence to ethnography: A response to Catherine Besteman's "representing violence and 'othering' Somalia"

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 100-108

  Lewis, I M ^a  

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EID: 0031993899     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/can.1998.13.1.100     Document Type: Article

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