Culture: A site of Relativist energy in the cognitive sciences

Common Knowledge

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-41

  Roepstorff, Andreas ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 79958105736     PISSN: 0961754X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/0961754X-2010-033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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