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Research Article

Socio-economic factors associated with physique of adults of the Purari delta of the Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea

S. J. Ulijaszek Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK
Pages 316-328 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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