Entangled in the imagination: New middle-class apprehensions in an Indian theme park

Ethnos

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 390-414

  Säävälä, Minna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Class; Consumption of leisure; Film; India; Status

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748119685     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141840600902729     Document Type: Article

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