Olfaction in a hunter-gatherer society: Insights from language and culture

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1155-1160

  Wnuk, Ewelina ^a,b   Majid, Asifa ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aslian; language of perception; Maniq; olfaction; smell terms

Indexed keywords

ASLIAN; HUMAN SENSE; LANGUAGE OF PERCEPTION; MANIQ; OLFACTION; SMALL POPULATION; SMELL TERM; SOUTHERN THAILAND;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84885811689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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