Voices twice silenced: Betrayal and mourning at colonialism's end in Mozambique

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 343-365

  West, Harry G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Counterinsurgency; Ethnography of violence; Historical erasure; Memory; Torture

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247451156     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14634996030033006     Document Type: Article

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