Asante Queen Mothers. A Study in Female Authority

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 810, Issue , 1997, Pages 41-71

  Stoeltje, Beverly J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GHANA; HISTORY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MOTHER; POLITICS; SOCIETY;

EID: 0030877810     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48124.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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