Modernity, prestige, and self-promotion: Literacy in a Papua New Guinean community

Anthropology and Education Quarterly

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 366-380

  Mckeown, Eamonn ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33750577755     PISSN: 01617761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aeq.2006.37.4.366     Document Type: Article

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