"The popular" in American culture

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 127-151

  Traube, Elizabeth G ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domination and resistance; Hegemony theory; Identity formation; Mass culture; Popular culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038874486     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.25.1.127     Document Type: Article

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