The power of accounts: Authority and authorship in ethnography

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-74

  Coffey, Amanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85008861582     PISSN: 09518398     EISSN: 13665898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0951839960090106     Document Type: Article

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