Women on the market: Marriage, consumption, and the Internet in urban Cameroon

American Ethnologist

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 642-658

  Johnson Hanks, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Consumption; Gender; Honor; Marriage; Modernity

Indexed keywords

EID: 35048878173     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2007.34.4.642     Document Type: Article

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