2013 / 2014
View desktop pageLost People and Familiar Others
- Title
- Lost People and Familiar Others: Cultivating Contact in Amazonian Ecuador
- Speaker(s)
- Speaker: Dr Casey High # University of Edinburgh
- Date and Time
- 11th Oct 2013 15:00 - 11th Oct 2013 17:00
- Location
- Seminar Room 1, CMB, 15a George Square
- URL
- http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/events/research_seminars/2013_2014/lost_people_and_familiar_others
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