Embers of society: Firelight talk among the Ju/'hoansi Bushmen

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 39, 2014, Pages 14027-14035

  Wiessner, Polly W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK PERSON; BOTSWANA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FIRE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; NAMIBIA; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BOTSWANA; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FIRES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; NAMIBIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84904646639     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404212111     Document Type: Article

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