The anonymity of the hunt a critique of hunting as sharing

Current Anthropology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 334-355

  Knight, John ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1086/665535     Document Type: Article

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