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Part IV - More Stuff: Short Topical Commentaries on Language and Materiality and Afterword

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2017

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Shalini Shankar
Jillian R. Cavanaugh
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Shalini Shankar
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Language and Materiality
Ethnographic and Theoretical Explorations
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