Descriptive, narrative, and experiential pathways to symbolic ancestors

Mortality

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 317-335

  Lambert, Ronald D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Constructionism; Genealogists; Imaginal relationships; Imaginary social worlds; Immanence; Parasocial relations; Symbolic ancestors

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750424325     PISSN: 13576275     EISSN: 14699885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576270600945584     Document Type: Article

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