'Serious games': Licences and prohibitions in Maasai sexual life

Africa

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 351-370

  Talle, Aud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

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

EID: 34548570293     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/afr.2007.0062     Document Type: Article

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