Measuring Traditional Agro-Ecological Knowledge: An Example from Peasants in the Peruvian Andes

Field Methods

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 356-372

  Rocha, Jorge M ^a  

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Author keywords

Andes; cultural consensus model; Peru; scaling; traditional knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247673012     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X05275380     Document Type: Article

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