The Shomvi: A precursor to global ethnoscapes and indigenization in precolonial East Africa

Ethnohistory

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 715-752

  Owens, Geoffrey Ross ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 37849189477     PISSN: 00141801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00141801-2006-020     Document Type: Article

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