Moustache hairs lost: Ramadan television serials and the construction of identity in Damascus, Syria

Visual Anthropology

Volumn 10, Issue 2-4, 1998, Pages 226-246

  Salamandra, Christa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84922898409     PISSN: 08949468     EISSN: 15455920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08949468.1998.9966732     Document Type: Article

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