Empathic perception and imagination among the Asabano: Lessons for anthropology

The Anthropology of Empathy: Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 95-116

  Lohmann, Roger Ivar ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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