Reindeer Milk

Handbook of Milk of Non-Bovine Mammals

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 355-370

  Holand, Øystein ^a   Gjøstein, Hallvard ^a   Nieminen, Mauri ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b Reindeer Research Station   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cultural identity; Eurasia; Experiments; Pastoralists; Reindeer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889268737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470999738.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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