When the lights go down in Cairo: Cinema as secular ritual

Visual Anthropology

Volumn 10, Issue 2-4, 1998, Pages 413-442

  Armbrust, Walter ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34248163573     PISSN: 08949468     EISSN: 15455920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08949468.1998.9966742     Document Type: Article

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