: Essays on Medical Anthropology . Thomas Weaver, Charles Hudson.
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عنوان ژورنال: American Anthropologist
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0002-7294,1548-1433
DOI: 10.1525/aa.1968.70.6.02a00320