Little fascinates New Yorkers more than doormen, who know far more about tenants than tenants know about them. Doormen know what their tenants eat, what kind of movies they watch, whom they spend time with, whether they drink too much, and whether they have kinky sex. But if doormen are unusually fa
Reciprocity Rules: Friendship and Compensation in Fieldwork Encounters
β Scribed by Michelle C. Johnson; Edmund (Ned) Searles
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 191
- Category
- Library
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