Things that don't come by the road: Folktales, fosterage, and memories of slavery in the Cameroon Grassfields

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 224-254

  Argenti, Nicolas ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMORY; SLAVERY;

CAMEROON;

EID: 77956299856     PISSN: 00104175     EISSN: 14752999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0010417510000034     Document Type: Article

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