The View from the Hogan: CulturaL Epidemiology and the Return to Ethnography

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 72-85

  Waldram, James B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alexander Leighton; culture; EMIC; epidemiology; ethnography

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOGRAPHY; HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CANADA; CULTURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN;

EID: 33645530035     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461506061758     Document Type: Article

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