Cosmology, worldview and gender-based knowledge systems among the Tanimuka and Yukuna (Northwest Amazon)

Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 213-242

  Reichel D , Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33847643852     PISSN: 13635247     EISSN: 15685357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853599x00171     Document Type: Article

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