What, we worry?: The pleasures and costs of defective memory for qualitative sociologists

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 466-478

  Best, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective amnesia; Collective memory; Qualitative sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745627464     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: 15525414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241606286988     Document Type: Review

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