The birth of the "salon": Poverty, "modernization/' and dealing with witchcraft in southern Tanzania

American Ethnologist

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 371-388

  Green, Maia ^a   Mesaki, Simeon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Development; Modernization; Poverty; Public sector reform; Tanzania; Witchcraft suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 24644489240     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2005.32.3.371     Document Type: Article

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