Tattoos are like potato chips ... You can't have just one: The process of becoming and being a collector

Deviant Behavior

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 253-273

  Vail, D Angus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Department of Sociology ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0033153791     PISSN: 01639625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/016396299266498     Document Type: Article

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