Etic and Emic Categories in Male Sexual Health: A Case Study from Orissa

Categories and Contexts: Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Collumbien, Martine ^a   Bohidar, Nabesh ^b   Das, Ram ^b   Das, Braj ^b   Pelto, Pertti ^c  

^a AIMS Research ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b AIMS Research Bhubaneswar   (India)

^c FORD FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Emic and etic categories; HIV interventions; India; Male sexual health; Public health; Semen anxiety; Semen loss; Sexually transmitted infections

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920753629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199270570.003.0011     Document Type: Chapter

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