When will we be people as well? Social identity and the politics of cultural performance: The case of the Waata Oromo of east and northeast Africa

Social Identities

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 189-206

  Kassam, Aneesa ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; HUNTER-GATHERER; INDIGENOUS POPULATION;

AFRICA;

EID: 0033949632     PISSN: 13504630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504630050032062     Document Type: Article

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