Dreamwork: Cell Phone Novelists, Labor, and Politics in Contemporary Japan

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 44-64

  Lukacs, Gabriella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 84873249424     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: 15481360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2012.01172.x     Document Type: Article

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