The real and symbolic importance of food in war: Hunger pains and big men's bellies in Sierra Leone

Africa Today

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 42-56

  Shepler, Susan ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENTELISM; FOOD; HUNGER; MORALITY; RECIPROCITY; WAR;

SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84857525798     PISSN: 00019887     EISSN: 15271978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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