Spectacular Bodies: Folklorization and the Politics of Identity in Ecuadorian Beauty Pageants

Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History, & Representation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 342-362

  Rogers, Mark ^a  

^a EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Marketing; Politics; Racism; Rural community

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889436786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470753538.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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