II Affective aesthetics of violent national pasts: Memorial museums'Never again': Aesthetics of 'genocidal' cosmopolitanism and the Bangladesh Liberation War Museum

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Mookherjee, Nayanika ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79955830214     PISSN: 13590987     EISSN: 14679655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2011.01690.x     Document Type: Article

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