Struggle over meanings: Reconstruction of indigenous mythology, cultural identity, and social representation

Ethnohistory

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-63

  Nygren, Anja ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/483171     Document Type: Article

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