Risk perception and social anthropology: Critique of cultural theory

Ethnos

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 64-84

  Boholm, Åsa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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EID: 84937280399     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141844.1996.9981528     Document Type: Article

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