Beyond meaning: Globalization and the icons of power

Anthropology and Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 307-320

  Lindquist, Galina ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANTHROPOLOGY; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; EMPOWERMENT; ENERGY; HEALING; HUMAN; MAGIC; MEDICAL ETHICS; PERFORMANCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; RITUAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 36749061914     PISSN: 13648470     EISSN: 14692910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13648470701612661     Document Type: Review

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