Inuit Interpretations of Sleep Paralysis

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 93-112

  Law, Samuel ^a   Kirmayer, Laurence J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

dreams; indigenous people; Inuit; shamanism; sleep paralysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANADA; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPREHENSION; COSMOS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPERSONALIZATION; DREAMING; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; FEAR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PARASOMNIA; PSYCHOANALYSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VISION;

ADULT; AGED; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INUITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP PARALYSIS; SPIRITUALISM;

EID: 16344384012     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461505050712     Document Type: Article

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