Cat Culture, Human Culture: An Ethnographic Study of a Cat Shelter

Society and Animals

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 199-218

  Alger, Janet M ^a   Alger, Steven F ^b  

^a SIENA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b The College of Saint Rose   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0012123218     PISSN: 10631119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853099X00086     Document Type: Article

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