Body Cartographers: Mapping Bodies and Borders in the Laboratory

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Body Cartographers : Mapping Bodies and Borders in the Laboratory. / Grünenberg, Kristina.

The biometric border world: technologies, bodies and identities on the move. ed. / Karen Fog Olwig; Kristina Grünenberg; Perle Møhl; Anja Simonsen. London, New York : Routledge, 2019. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology).

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Harvard

Grünenberg, K 2019, Body Cartographers: Mapping Bodies and Borders in the Laboratory. in KF Olwig, K Grünenberg, P Møhl & A Simonsen (eds), The biometric border world: technologies, bodies and identities on the move. Routledge, London, New York, Routledge Studies in Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367808464

APA

Grünenberg, K. (2019). Body Cartographers: Mapping Bodies and Borders in the Laboratory. In K. F. Olwig, K. Grünenberg, P. Møhl, & A. Simonsen (Eds.), The biometric border world: technologies, bodies and identities on the move Routledge. Routledge Studies in Anthropology https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367808464

Vancouver

Grünenberg K. Body Cartographers: Mapping Bodies and Borders in the Laboratory. In Olwig KF, Grünenberg K, Møhl P, Simonsen A, editors, The biometric border world: technologies, bodies and identities on the move. London, New York: Routledge. 2019. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367808464

Author

Grünenberg, Kristina. / Body Cartographers : Mapping Bodies and Borders in the Laboratory. The biometric border world: technologies, bodies and identities on the move. editor / Karen Fog Olwig ; Kristina Grünenberg ; Perle Møhl ; Anja Simonsen. London, New York : Routledge, 2019. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology).

Bibtex

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