Building in the Name of God: Architecture, Resistance, and the Christian Faith in the Bamileke Highlands of Western Cameroon

African Studies Review

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-78

  Malaquais, Dominique ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 84937180336     PISSN: 00020206     EISSN: 15552462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/525528     Document Type: Article

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