Setting themselves apart: Education, capabilities, and sexuality among samburu women in Kenya

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 551-577

  Lesorogol, Carolyn K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Education; Kenya; Pastoralism; Samburu; Sexuality; Symbolic boundaries; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 52649137829     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.0.0020     Document Type: Article

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