Air youth: Performance, violence and the state in cameroon

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 753-781

  Argenti, Nicolas ^a  

^a University Ofeastanglia

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EID: 0011549215     PISSN: 13590987     EISSN: 14679655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3034831     Document Type: Article

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