People, not pots: Locally produced ceramics and identity on the nineteenth-century East African coast

International Journal of African Historical Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 107-123

  Croucher, Sarah ^a   Wynne Jones, Stephanie ^a  

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