Fun and violence. Ethnocide and the effervescence of collective aggression

Social Anthropology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-22

  Verkaaik, Oskar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 18344395938     PISSN: 09640282     EISSN: 14698676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8676.2003.tb00069.x     Document Type: Article

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