Oral tradition of origin as a remembered memory and a repeated event: Sorghum as a gift in jie and Turkana historical consciousness

Ethnohistory

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 223-256

  Mirzeler, Mustafa Kemal ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 3042730561     PISSN: 00141801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00141801-51-2-223     Document Type: Review

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