Ritual Practice and Its Discontents

A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 358-373

  Seeman, Don ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonialism; Franz boas; John Ingham; Ritual practices; Stereotype

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889322454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996409.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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