Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 173-193

  Ortner, Sherry B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84974166848     PISSN: 00104175     EISSN: 14752999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0010417500019587     Document Type: Review

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