Home call: Absence, presence and migration in rural northern Ghana

African Identities

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-40

  Cassiman, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Death; Funeral; Ghana; Rural urban migration; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952889154     PISSN: 14725843     EISSN: 14725851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14725840903438269     Document Type: Article

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