Winter Hunger, Winter Myths: Subsistence Risk and Mythology among the Klamath and Modoc

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 276-316

  Sobel, Elizabeth ^a   Bettles, Gordon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Amer Indian Cultur Rsrc P   (United States)

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EID: 0043233100     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jaar.2000.0365     Document Type: Article

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