Children's Acquisition of Ethnobotanical Knowledge in a Caribbean Horticultural Village

Journal of Ethnobiology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 433-456

  Quinlan, Marsha B ^a   Quinlan, Robert J ^a   Council, Sarah K ^a   Roulette, Jennifer W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

child development; cognitive domains; ethnobotany; social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978160676     PISSN: 02780771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2993/0278-0771-36.2.433     Document Type: Article

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