The cultural politics of "community" and citizenship in the District Six Museum, Cape Town

Anthropologica

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 359-373

  Beyers, Christiaan ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Citizenship; Community; District six; Land restitution

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149269458     PISSN: 00035459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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