The cognitive rationality of taboos on production and reproduction in Sub-Saharan Africa

Africa

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 628-654

  Gausset, Quentin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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EID: 0038474134     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/afr.2002.72.4.628     Document Type: Article

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