Private cleanliness, public mess: Purity, pollution and space in Kottar, South India

Urban Pollution: Cultural Meanings, Social Practices

Volumn 15, Issue , 2010, Pages 57-85

  Lüthi, Damaris ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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