Discourses of Loss and Bereavement in Tigray, Ethiopia

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 173-194

  Nordanger, Dag ^a  

^a Resource Centre for Violence   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Culture; PTSD; Religion; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CRYING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; ETHIOPIA; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION;

BEREAVEMENT; CRYING; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; ETHIOPIA; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; RELIGION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 33847209481     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-007-9050-6     Document Type: Article

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