Resting at creation and afterlife: Distant times in the ordinary strategies of muslim women in the rural fouta djallon, Guinea

American Ethnologist

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 36-52

  Smid, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 76249085821     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01240.x     Document Type: Article

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