Order in a disordered world: The Bertha House (Western Ethiopia)

Anthropos

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 379-402

  González Ruibal, Alfredo ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bertha; Domestic space; Nilo Saharans; Sudan Ethiopia borderland

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748297431     PISSN: 02579774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5771/0257-9774-2006-2-379     Document Type: Review

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