The politics of house shape: Round vs rectilinear domestic structures in Déla compounds, northern Cameroon

Antiquity

Volumn 70, Issue 268, 1996, Pages 351-367

  Lyons, Diane ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DOUGLAS COLLEGE   (Canada)

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EID: 4243097225     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00083320     Document Type: Article

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