
Ethnographic Study of the Military Body’s Enactment of Routines at a Training Camp
By: Anu Valtonen, Aki-Mauri Huhtinen and Soili Paananen
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.31374/sjms.43 | Journal eISSN: 2596-3856
Language: English
Page range: 132 - 143
Submitted on: Jul 30, 2019
Accepted on: Apr 22, 2020
Published on: Nov 13, 2020
Published by: Scandinavian Military Studies
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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