Spectacular infrastructure and its breakdown in socialist Vietnam

American Ethnologist

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 520-534

  Schwenkel, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84939223345     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/amet.12145     Document Type: Article

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