Distracción: Notes on cultural citizenship, visual ethnography, and Mexican migration to Pennsylvania

Visual Anthropology Review

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 133-147

  Diaz Barriga, Miguel ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural festivals; Cultural citizenship; Distraction; Mexican migration; Transnationalism; Visual anthropology

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049296970     PISSN: 10587187     EISSN: 15487458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-7458.2008.00010.x     Document Type: Article

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