Imagining public relations anthropology

Public Relations, Society & Culture: Theoretical and Empirical Explorations

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 15-32

  L'Etang, Jacquie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

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