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Paul Bouissac, Circus and culture: A semiotic approach. (Advances in Semiotics, edited by Thomas A. Sebeok.) Bloomington and London: University of Indiana Press, 1976. Pp. xiii+206.

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Paul Bouissac, Circus and culture: A semiotic approach. (Advances in Semiotics, edited by Thomas A. Sebeok.) Bloomington and London: University of Indiana Press, 1976. Pp. xiii+206.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Phyllis Rogers
Phyllis Rogers
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Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
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Language in Society , Volume 8 , Issue 2-3 , August 1979 , pp. 449 - 453
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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