Clashing claims: Neopatrimonial governance, land tenure transformation, and violence at Enoosupukia, Kenya

Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-88

  Matter, Scott ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Democratization; Dorobo; Ethnicity; Kenya; Kikuyu; Land tenure transformation; Maasai; Neopatrimonialism; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956169888     PISSN: 10816976     EISSN: 15552934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2010.01093.x     Document Type: Article

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