Getting messy: In the field and at the crossroads with roadside shrines

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 229-260

  Kennerly, Rebecca M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contestation; Cultural performance; Memorialization; Mourning; Roadside shrines

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745274031     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10462930208616172     Document Type: Article

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