Sex and the sacred: Sojourners and visitors in the making of the Southern Thai borderland

Centering the Margin: Agency and Narrative in Southeast Asian Borderlands

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 177-206

  Askew, Marc ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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