A ludicrous discipline? Ethnography and game studies

Games and Culture

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-35

  Boellstorff, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Culture; Ethnography; Game studies; Methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947231790     PISSN: 15554120     EISSN: 15554139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1555412005281620     Document Type: Article

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