Actions Speak Louder than Words: Close Relationships between Humans and Nonhuman Animals

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 405-426

  Sanders, Clinton R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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EID: 0141652831     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/si.2003.26.3.405     Document Type: Review

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