Unsettled business: Acrylic painting, tradition, and indigenous being

Visual Anthropology

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 247-271

  Myers, Fred R ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84941883481     PISSN: 08949468     EISSN: 15455920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08949460490468036     Document Type: Article

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