Kinship as gift and theft: Acts of succession in Mayotte and Israel

American Ethnologist

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 2-16

  Lambek, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

kinship; ethics; Malagasy ; Mayotte; siblingship; spirit possession; succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551519564     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01288.x     Document Type: Article

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