"Now that you're going home, are you going to write about the natives you studied?": Telenovela reception, adultery and the dilemmas of ethnographic practice

Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 125-146

  La Pastina, Antonio C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203505441     Document Type: Chapter

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