Things of the ground: Children's medicine, motherhood and memory in the Cameroon Grassfields

Africa

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 269-294

  Argenti, Nicolas ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; CULTURAL TRADITION; MEDICINE; MEMORY; PARENTAL CARE; SYMBOLISM;

CAMEROON;

EID: 79956127784     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: 17500184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001972011000015     Document Type: Article

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