Antiquity of traditional ethnobiological knowledge in Amazonia: The Tupí-Guaraní family and time

Ethnohistory

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 398-422

  Balée, William ^a  

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EID: 0040736045     PISSN: 00141801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00141801-47-2-399     Document Type: Article

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