Do anutans empathize? Morality, compassion, and opacity of other minds

The Anthropology of Empathy: Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 151-168

  Feinberg, Richard ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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