The intimate arctic: An early anthropologist's diary in the strict sense of the term

Ethnos

Volumn 63, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 413-440

  Pálsson, Gísli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Exploration; Fieldwork; Intimacy; Inuit; The Arctic; V. Stefansson

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933476989     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141844.1998.9981582     Document Type: Article

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