Bird Identification as a Family of Activities: Motives, Mediating Artifacts, and Laminated Assemblages

Ethos

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-70

  Prior, Paul ^a   Schaffner, Spencer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 79951527976     PISSN: 00912131     EISSN: 15481352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1352.2010.01170.x     Document Type: Article

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