'Once intrepid warriors': Modernity and the production of Maasai masculinities

Ethnology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 121-150

  Hodgson, Dorothy L ^a  

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GENDER ROLE; MODERNITY;

TANZANIA;

EID: 0032863140     PISSN: 00141828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3773979     Document Type: Article

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