The transfer of trust: Ethnicities as economic institutions in the livestock trade in West and East Africa

Africa

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 121-145

  van Ufford, Paul Quarles ^a   Zaal, Fred ^b  

^a UNICEF   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL TRADE; COLONIALISM; ETHNICITY; LIVESTOCK; REGIONAL TRADE; TRADE RELATIONS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 4544335321     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/afr.2004.74.2.121     Document Type: Article

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