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Consuming anthropology. / Suchman, Lucy.
Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences. ed. / Andrew Barry; Georgina Born. Taylor and Francis, 2013. p. 141-160.

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Suchman, L 2013, Consuming anthropology. in A Barry & G Born (eds), Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences. Taylor and Francis, pp. 141-160. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203584279

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Suchman, L. (2013). Consuming anthropology. In A. Barry, & G. Born (Eds.), Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences (pp. 141-160). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203584279

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Suchman L. Consuming anthropology. In Barry A, Born G, editors, Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences. Taylor and Francis. 2013. p. 141-160 doi: 10.4324/9780203584279

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Suchman, Lucy. / Consuming anthropology. Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences. editor / Andrew Barry ; Georgina Born. Taylor and Francis, 2013. pp. 141-160

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