Home sweet home: Tattoo parlors as postmodern spaces of agency

Western Journal of Communication

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 197-212

  Modesti, Sonja ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Postmodern; Rhetoric; Spatial Studies; Tattoo

Indexed keywords

EID: 49949093216     PISSN: 10570314     EISSN: 17451027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10570310802210106     Document Type: Article

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