Fixing families of mobile children: Recreating kinship and belonging among maasai adoptees in kenya

Childhood

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 229-242

  Archambault, Caroline ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adoption; Childhood; Kinship; Mobility; Sedentarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955301510     PISSN: 09075682     EISSN: 14617013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0907568210365672     Document Type: Article

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