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The Myth of the Exemplary Centre: Shelly Errington's Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Ian Caldwell
Affiliation:
National University of Singapore

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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1991

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