Lion on display: Culture, nature, and totality in a circus performance

Poetics Today

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-90

  Carmeli, Yoram S ^a  

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EID: 33644989802     PISSN: 03335372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/03335372-24-1-65     Document Type: Article

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