Balinese spatial orientation: Some empirical evidence of moderate linguistic relativity

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 689-711

  Wassmann, Jürg ^a   Dasen, Pierre R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0000158653     PISSN: 13590987     EISSN: 14679655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3034828     Document Type: Article

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