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The Anthropology of Symbolic Healing

Article in Current Anthropology · March 1979

DOI: 10.1086/202203

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Author(s): Daniel E. Moerman, Jean Benoist, Eugene B. Brody, Maureen Giovannini, Miguel F.
Gracia, Edward T. Hall, H. K. Heggenhougen, Doris F. Jonas, Michael Kearney, Dean
Kedenburg, Luis S. Kemnitzer, David Landy, Barbara W. Lex, Thomas W. Maretzki, John-
Henry Pfifferling, George Freeman Solomon, David H. Spodick
Source: Current Anthropology, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Mar., 1979), pp. 59-80
Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation for
Anthropological Research
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