Ingesting menstrual blood: Notions of health and bodily fluids in Bengal

Ethnology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 365-379

  Hanssen, Kristin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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CULTURAL INFLUENCE;

EID: 0036764746     PISSN: 00141828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4153014     Document Type: Article

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