Running amok or just sleeping rough? Long-grass camping and the politics of care in northern Australia

American Ethnologist

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 171-186

  Fisher, Daniel ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84857617123     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01356.x     Document Type: Article

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