Patronage, millennialism and the serpent God Mumbo in south-west Kenya, 1912-34

Africa

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 29-54

  Shadle, Brett L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; PATRON-CLIENT RELATIONS; POLITICAL POWER; RELIGION; STATE ROLE;

KENYA;

EID: 0036042486     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/afr.2002.72.1.29     Document Type: Article

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