Exotic identities: Dance, difference, and self-fashioning

Journal of Folklore Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-36

  Bock, Sheila ^a   Borland, Katherine ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84856978238     PISSN: 07377037     EISSN: 15430413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2979/jfolkrese.48.1.1     Document Type: Article

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