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9 - Tradeoffs in Coast Salish Social Action

Balancing Autonomy, Inequality, and Sustainability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2017

Michelle Hegmon
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Arizona State University
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The Give and Take of Sustainability
Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Tradeoffs
, pp. 198 - 221
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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