A happy coincidence? Symbiosis and synthesis in anthropological and indigenous knowledges

Current Anthropology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 981-1008

  Strang, Veronica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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DOI: 10.1086/507196     Document Type: Article

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