Never forgetting? Gender and racial-ethnic identity during fieldwork

Social Anthropology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 303-317

  Loftsdóttir, Kristín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

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EID: 84937378803     PISSN: 09640282     EISSN: 14698676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8676.2002.tb00061.x     Document Type: Article

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