Televisualist anthropology: Representation, aesthetics, politics

Current Anthropology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 197-235

  Weiner, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

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EID: 0039544648     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/204605     Document Type: Review

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