Clove plantations on nineteenth-century Zanzibar: Possibilities for gender archaeology in Africa

Journal of Social Archaeology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 302-324

  Croucher, Sarah K ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African archaeology; Feminism; Gender; Historical archaeology; Identity; Zanzibar

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848817467     PISSN: 14696053     EISSN: 17412951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1469605307081390     Document Type: Article

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