Modular modern: Shifting forms of collective identity among the Akha of Northern Thailand

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 243-288

  Tooker, Deborah E ^a  

^a LE MOYNE COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 3142774825     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2004.0073     Document Type: Review

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