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10 - Word-things and Thing-words: The Transmodal Production of Privilege and Status

from Part III - Time, Place, Circulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2017

Jillian R. Cavanaugh
Affiliation:
CUNY, New York
Shalini Shankar
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Illinois
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Language and Materiality
Ethnographic and Theoretical Explorations
, pp. 185 - 203
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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