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Ethnography on Trial

Alice Goffman, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. $25.00. 288 Pp. ISBN: 978–0,226,136,714

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    Philip Manning, Sarah Jammal & Blake Shimola

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Manning, P., Jammal, S. & Shimola, B. Ethnography on Trial. Soc 53, 444–452 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-016-0040-6

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