'What the fuck is a Vietnam?' Touristic phantasms and the popcolonization of (the) Vietnam (war)

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 461-489

  Alneng, Victor ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

International tourism; Phantasms; Vietnam; War

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038748040     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X020220040501     Document Type: Review

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