Everyday attentiveness: understanding diabetes in Vietnam through literary displacement

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Everyday attentiveness : understanding diabetes in Vietnam through literary displacement. / Gammeltoft, Tine M.

In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2022, p. 595-612.

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Harvard

Gammeltoft, TM 2022, 'Everyday attentiveness: understanding diabetes in Vietnam through literary displacement', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 595-612. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13710

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Gammeltoft, T. M. (2022). Everyday attentiveness: understanding diabetes in Vietnam through literary displacement. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(2), 595-612. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13710

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Gammeltoft TM. Everyday attentiveness: understanding diabetes in Vietnam through literary displacement. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 2022;28(2):595-612. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13710

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Gammeltoft, Tine M. / Everyday attentiveness : understanding diabetes in Vietnam through literary displacement. In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 2022 ; Vol. 28, No. 2. pp. 595-612.

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