Latitudes of loss: On the vicissitudes of empathy

American Ethnologist

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 771-782

  Throop, C Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Empathy; Fieldwork; Funerals; Grief; Intersubjectivity; Loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349235792     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01284.x     Document Type: Article

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