Roadwork: Offstage with special drama actresses in Tamilnadu, South India

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 217-259

  Seizer, Susan ^a  

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DOI: 10.1525/can.2000.15.2.217     Document Type: Article

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