We wanted change yesterday! The promise and perils of poritikisi: Zimbabwean farm workers, party politics and critical social science

Anthropologica

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 381-394

  Rutherford, Blair ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critique; Farm workers; Land struggles; Political anthropology; Politics; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

EID: 73049106292     PISSN: 00035459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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