"Bisexuality" and the politics of normal in African ethnography

Anthropologica

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 187-201

  Epprecht, Marc ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Africa; Bisexuality; Colonialism; Queer theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845186432     PISSN: 00035459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25605310     Document Type: Review

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