Walking a tightrope: Saintliness, gender, and power in an ethnographic encounter

Anthropology and Humanism

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 111-134

  Khandelwal, Meena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 0037676513     PISSN: 15599167     EISSN: 15481409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ahu.1996.21.2.111     Document Type: Article

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