“picture-thinking”: Sovereignty and citizenship in bangladesh

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1257-1278

  Chowdhury, Nusrat S ^a  

^a AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Crowds; Democracy; Political emergency; South Asia; Visual culture; Citizenship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920281348     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: 15341518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2014.0058     Document Type: Article

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