'We turned our enemies into baboons': Warfare, ritual and pastoral identity among the Pokot of northern Kenya

The Practice of War: Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 23-52

  Bollig, Michael ^a   Österle, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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