Bodies in perspective: A critique of the embodiment paradigm from the point of view of Amazonian ethnography

Social Bodies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 129-147

  Vilaça, Aparecida ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

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