Going home: Giving voice to memory strategies of young Mayan refugees who returned to Guatemala as a community

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 135-168

  Rousseau, Cécile ^a   Morales, Maria ^a   Foxen, Patricia ^a  

^a MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; REFUGEES;

EID: 0035378091     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010600615482     Document Type: Article

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