Seclusion, protection and avoidance: Exploring the metida complex among the Datoga of northern Tanzania

Africa

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 331-350

  Blystad, Astrid ^a   Rekdal, Ole Bjørn ^b   Malleyeck, Herman ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

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

EID: 34548556000     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/afr.2007.0045     Document Type: Article

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