Promiscuous Things: Perspectives on Cultural Property Through Photographs in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea

International Journal of Cultural Property

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 123-139

  Bell, Joshua A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85010133987     PISSN: 09407391     EISSN: 14657317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0940739108080107     Document Type: Article

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