Blood oil: The anatomy of a petro-insurgency in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

Crude Domination: An Anthropology of Oil

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 49-80

  Watts, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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