Inuit perceptions of contaminants and environmental knowledge in Salluit, Nunavik

Arctic Anthropology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 78-91

  Poirier, Sylvie ^a   Brooke, Lorraine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD CHAIN; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; PERCEPTION; POLLUTION; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

CANADA;

EID: 0034441216     PISSN: 00666939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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