Objects on the edge: Swahili coast logics of display

African Arts

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 8-23

  Meier, Prita ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

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EID: 70350111168     PISSN: 00019933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/afar.2009.42.4.8     Document Type: Review

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