Pain with punishment and the negotiation of childhood: An ethnographic analysis of children's rights processes in Maasailand

Africa

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 282-302

  Archambault, Caroline ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD WELFARE; HUMAN RIGHTS; LEARNING; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; TEACHING;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 67651204730     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: 17500184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/E0001972009000722     Document Type: Article

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