Tswana hunting: Continuities and changes in the transvaal and kalahari after 1600

South African Historical Journal

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 418-439

  Morton, Fred ^a   Hitchcock, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Firearms; Hunting; Hunting vocabulary; Ivory; Trophies; Tswana

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888813047     PISSN: 02582473     EISSN: 17261686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2013.855809     Document Type: Article

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