Nature identification: The power of pointing and naming

Environmental Communication

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-24

  Milstein, Tema ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Ecoculture; Ecological Individual Dialectic; Ecotourism; Identification; Nature; Orcas; Southern Resident Killer Whales; Whale Watching; Wildlife Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951892632     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2010.535836     Document Type: Article

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