Beauty as control in the new Saigon: Eviction, new urban zones, and atomized dissent in a Southeast Asian city

American Ethnologist

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 735-750

  Harms, Erik ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlling processes; Ho Chi Minh City; New Urban Zones; Saigon; Urban anthropology; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868309544     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01392.x     Document Type: Article

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