Wounded warriors: Further explorations into a biocultural semiotics

Semiotica

Volumn 166, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-44

  Staiano Ross, Kathryn ^a  

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EID: 61149490953     PISSN: 00371998     EISSN: 16133692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/SEM.2006.050     Document Type: Article

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