The bodily expression of ethnic identity: Head shaping in the Chilean Atacama

Bioarchaeology and Identity in the Americas

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 212-227

  Torres Rouff, Christina ^a  

^a University of Colorado College of Nursing   (United States)

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