Narrating the border: Perspectives from the Kelabit Highlands of Borneo

Centering the Margin: Agency and Narrative in Southeast Asian Borderlands

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 207-228

  Amster, Matthew H ^a  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

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