Dangers, experience and luck: Living with uncertainty in the Andes

Culture and the Changing Environment: Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 221-250

  Göbel, Barbara ^a  

^a Ibero American Institute   (Germany)

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