Comparative Cultural Salience: Measures Using Free-List Data

Field Methods

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 398-412

  Thompson, Eric C ^a   Juan, Zhang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

cognitive anthropology; cultural salience; free list; free recall; semantic domains; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947537479     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X06293128     Document Type: Article

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