Plants 'of the ancestors', plants 'of the outsiders': Ese Eja history, migration and medicinal plants

Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia: Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages 220-248

  Alexiades, Miguel N ^a   Peluso, Daniela M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

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