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Bolivia: Our Brand is Crisis

• New York Times. 2006. The (American) Selling of the (Bolivian) President, 2002

Anthropology, Media, Advertising

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• McLuhan, Marshall. "The Medium is the Message," in The Anthropology of Media: a Reader. 2002[1964].
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• ----------------------. 2002. Publics and Counterpublics. Zone press.

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