Powers, problems, and paradoxes of twinship in Niger

Ethnology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 45-62

  Masquelier, A ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISLAMISM; POWER RELATIONS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

NIGER;

EID: 0034955914     PISSN: 00141828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3773888     Document Type: Article

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