Learning about power: Development and marginality in an adult literacy center for farm workers in Zimbabwe

American Ethnologist

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 839-854

  Rutherford, Blair ^a   Nyamuda, Rinse ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b 6480 Unit J   (Zimbabwe)

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EID: 0034310007     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2000.27.4.839     Document Type: Article

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