Discourses on inequality: Poverty, public bads and entrenching witchcraft in post-adjustment Tanzania

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 247-266

  Green, Maia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inequality; Poverty; Public administration; Tanzania; Traditional healing; Witchcraft

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845525556     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499605055959     Document Type: Article

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