Writing in water, or, evanescence, enchantment and ethnography in a Chinese urban park

Visual Anthropology Review

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-22

  Zito, Angela ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

calligraphy; China; documentary; embodiment; enchantment; performance; writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901758393     PISSN: 10587187     EISSN: 15487458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/var.12027     Document Type: Article

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