Witchcraft, gender, power and intimate relations in mura compounds in déla, northern cameroon

World Archaeology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 344-362

  Lyons, Diane ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Ethnoarchaeology; Gender; Land tenure; Site formation processes; Witchcraft

Indexed keywords

EID: 5544272864     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.1998.9980384     Document Type: Article

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