Reviews: Reflections On Culture: Johan Fischer,Proper Islamic Consumption: Shopping among the Malays in Modern Malaysia,Monograph Series 113. Copenhagen: NIAS (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies) Press,2008,258 pp.,ISBN 9788776940324,£17.99

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