Licence revoked: When calypso goes too far

An Anthropology of Indirect Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 181-200

  Skinner, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203428573-19     Document Type: Chapter

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