Living on Luo time: Reckoning sequence, duration, history and biography in a rural African society

World Archaeology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 248-260

  Dietler, Michael ^a   Herbich, Ingrid ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 27144516276     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.1993.9980241     Document Type: Article

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