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Some illustrations follow:

• Wilfred Thesiger, Desert, Marsh and Mountain [1979] (London: Flamingo, 1995), p. 125.
• Dervla Murphy, Muddling Through in Madagascar (London: John Murray, 1985), p. 62.
• Jennifer Craik, ‘The Culture of Tourism’, in Chris Rojek and John Urry, eds., Touring Cultures: Transformations of Travel and Theory (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 113–36 (p. 115).
• Charles Sanders Peirce, Collected Papers, vols. 7 and 8, ed. Arthur W. Burks (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966), in particular vol. 8, ch. 5 ‘On Signs’, pp. 210–13.
• Vincent Crapanzano, ‘On the Writing of Ethnography’, Dialectical Anthropology 2, 1 (1977), 69–73 (p. 72).

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• Murphy, Muddling Through, p. 62.
• Craik, ‘Culture of Tourism’, p. 115.

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