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Part I - Texts, Objects, Mediality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2017

Jillian R. Cavanaugh
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CUNY, New York
Shalini Shankar
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Northwestern University, Illinois
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Language and Materiality
Ethnographic and Theoretical Explorations
, pp. 41 - 102
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Print publication year: 2017

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