Traditions in transition: African diaspora ethnobotany in lowland South America

Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia: Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages 275-294

  Voeks, Robert ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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