Introduction: Experience and Inquiétude

Ethos

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-23

  Willen, Sarah S ^a   Seeman, Don ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experience; Inqui tude; Intersubjectivity; Phenomenological anthropology; Psychoanalytic anthropology; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864069612     PISSN: 00912131     EISSN: 15481352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1352.2011.01228.x     Document Type: Article

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