The poetics of "madness": Shifting codes and styles in the linguistic construction of identity in Matlab, Bangladesh

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-34

  Wilce, James M ^a  

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EID: 0034134598     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/can.2000.15.1.3     Document Type: Article

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