Consuming the dead: Symbolic exchange in thai 'hungry ghost' festivals

Advances in Consumer Research

Volumn 40, Issue , 2012, Pages 771-772

  Tiwsakul, Rungpaka Amy ^a   Hackley, Chris ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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