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The symposium, “Cultural Adaptations to Mountain Ecosystems,” was given at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Lousiana, November 28, 1973.
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Brush, S.B. Introduction. Hum Ecol 4, 125–133 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01531216
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