Culture, practice, and the semantics of Xhosa beer-drinking

Ethnology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 187-207

  McAllister, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL TRADITION; DRINKING; GOODS EXCHANGE; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE;

EASTERN CAPE; SHIXINI; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0141761178     PISSN: 00141828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3773800     Document Type: Article

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