Waorani grief and the witch-killer's rage: Worldview, emotion, and anthropological explanation

Ethos

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 206-230

  Robarchek, Clayton ^a   Robarchek, Carole ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Emotion; Ethnology; Motivation; Waorani

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844576575     PISSN: 00912131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/eth.2005.33.2.206     Document Type: Review

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