The Maasai's new clothes: A developmentalist modernity and its exclusions

Africa Today

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 101-131

  Schneider, Leander ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; CULTURAL TRADITION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MODERNITY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

EID: 33846521090     PISSN: 00019887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2979/aft.2006.53.1.100     Document Type: Article

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