This is not our culture! Discourse of nostalgia and narratives of health concerns in post-socialist Tanzania

Africa

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 359-383

  Kamat, Vinay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; HEALTH CARE; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

AFRICA; DAR ES SALAAM [TANZANIA]; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

EID: 54849442287     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/E0001972008000223     Document Type: Article

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