On the edge of empire: Military brokers in the Sepik "tribal zone"

American Ethnologist

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 100-113

  Bragge, Lawrence ^a   Claas, Ulrike ^b   Roscoe, Paul ^c  

^a Universität Göttingen ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

Brokers; Melanesia; Military brokerage; Sepik; Tribal zone; War

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044469847     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2006.33.1.100     Document Type: Article

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