Onitsha women: The traditional context for political power

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 810, Issue , 1997, Pages 215-243

  Henderson, Helen Kreider ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLERGY; CLOTHING; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEATH; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; NIGERIA; POLICY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POPULATION RESEARCH; SCHOOL; SEX ROLE;

EID: 0030790033     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48131.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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