Separating and containing people and things in Mongolia

Thinking Through Things: Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 113-140

  Empson, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203088791     Document Type: Chapter

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