How evaluating dreams makes history: Asabano examples

History and Anthropology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 227-249

  Lohmann, Roger Ivar ^a  

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Author keywords

Cultural Dream Theories; Dreaming; Epistemic Assessment; Historical Processes; Melanesia

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956072877     PISSN: 02757206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2010.496782     Document Type: Review

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