Remembering and reworking the Swahili Diwanate: The role of objects and places at Vumba Kuu

International Journal of African Historical Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 407-427

  Wynne Jones, Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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74. As in Fleisher, Rituals of Consumption.