Local experts - expert locals: A comparative perspective on biodiversity and environmental knowledge systems in Australia and Namibia

Culture and the Changing Environment: Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 351-381

  Widlok, Thomas ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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