Nomads from Affluence: Notes on the Phenomenon of Drifter-Tourism1
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This article is published in International Journal of Comparative Sociology.The article was published on 1973-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 324 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Drifter.read more
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