Use of network centrality measures to explain individual levels of herbal remedy cultural competence among the Yucatec Maya in Tabi, Mexico

Field Methods

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 307-328

  Hopkins, Allison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cultural consensus analysis; intracultural knowledge variation; medicinal plant remedies; social network analysis; Yucatan

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959741841     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X11399400     Document Type: Article

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