Tamilnet.com: Some reflections on popular anthropology, nationalism, and the internet

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 469-498

  Whitaker, Mark P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AIKEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Autoethnography; Diaspora; Ethnography; Internet; Irony; Journalism; Nationalism; Popular anthropology; Sri Lanka; Tamil; Toronto

Indexed keywords

EID: 5644246325     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2004.0034     Document Type: Review

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