Adoption practices among the pastoral Maasai of East Africa: Enacting fertility

Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 64-78

  Talle, Aud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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