Introduction: Social agency, power, and being human

Agency Uncovered: Archaeological Perspectives on Social Agency, Power, and Being Human

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-16

  Gardner, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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