The optimal sacrifice: A study of voluntary death among the siberian Chukchi

American Ethnologist

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 693-704

  Willsersle, Rane ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 76449120977     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2009.01204.x     Document Type: Article

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