Club Life: Third Place and Shared Leisure in Rural Canada

Leisure Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 450-465

  Mair, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Curling; Ethnography; Leisure; Rural; Third place

Indexed keywords

QUALITY OF LIFE; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; RURAL AREA;

CANADA;

JUGLANS;

EID: 77949335519     PISSN: 01490400     EISSN: 15210588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490400903199740     Document Type: Article

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