Slipping through sky holes: Yurok body imagery in northern California

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 171-202

  Ferreira, Mariana K Leal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PEDIGREE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

BODY IMAGE; CALIFORNIA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PEDIGREE; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0032086034     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005357326030     Document Type: Article

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