Body Surrogates: Mannequins, Life-Size Dolls, and Avatars
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عنوان ژورنال: PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1520-281X,1537-9477
DOI: 10.1162/pajj_a_00311