The spirit of competition: Wak in Burkina Faso

Africa

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 464-483

  Royer, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPORT;

BURKINA FASO;

EID: 0038576163     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/afr.2002.72.3.464     Document Type: Article

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