What if there is no elephant? Towards a conception of an un-sited field

Multi-sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis and Locality in Contemporary Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 47-72

  Cook, Joanna ^a   Laidlaw, James ^b,c   Mair, Jonathan ^d  

^a CHRIST S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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