Discourses of the soul: The negotiation of personal agency in tzotzil maya dream narrative

American Ethnologist

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 705-721

  Groark, Kevin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 76449095243     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2009.01205.x     Document Type: Article

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