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Research Article

White masculinity in the death zone: transformations of colonial identities in the Himalayas

Patricia PurtschertInterdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, University of Bern, SwitzerlandCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 31-42 | Published online: 06 Dec 2020

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