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Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Sherry B. Ortner
Sherry B. Ortner
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University of California, Berkeley
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 173 - 193
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