Recovering from codependence in Japan

American Ethnologist

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 94-118

  Borovoy, Amy ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Gender; Hegemonic cultural processes; Japan; National identity; Selfhood; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035529307     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2001.28.1.94     Document Type: Article

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