Introduction: Between Cameroon and Cuba: Youth, slave trades and translocal memoryscapes

Social Anthropology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-47

  Argenti, Nicolas ^a   Röschenthaler, Ute ^a  

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EID: 33644529387     PISSN: 09640282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0964028205001928     Document Type: Article

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