Darker than midnight: Fear, vulnerability, and terror making in urban Burma (Myanmar)

American Ethnologist

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-21

  Skidmore, Monique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Burma; Fear; Myanmar; State construction of affect; Time; Violence; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037316471     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2003.30.1.5     Document Type: Article

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