Talking Back to Primitivism: Divided Audiences, Collective Desires

American Anthropologist

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 832-838

  Bessire, Lucas ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0347588233     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2003.105.4.832     Document Type: Review

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