Ethnography and fiction: Where is the border?

Anthropology and Humanism

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 134-147

  Narayan, Kirin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 0039601502     PISSN: 15599167     EISSN: 15481409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ahu.1999.24.2.134     Document Type: Article

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