Disgust and the anthropological imagination

Ethnos

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 131-156

  Durham, Deborah ^a  

^a SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Body; Disgust; Emotions; Imagination

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958793877     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2010.547941     Document Type: Article

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