Teaching wedding rules: How bridal workers negotiate control over their customers

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-67

  Corrado, Marisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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EID: 0036110683     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241602031001002     Document Type: Article

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