Ayurvedic Psychotherapy: Transposed Signs, Parodied Selves

Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 84-98

  Langford, Jean M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 0012096835     PISSN: 10816976     EISSN: 15552934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/pol.1998.21.1.84     Document Type: Article

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