Kinship and corruption in contemporary nigeria

Ethnos

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 344-364

  Smith, Daniel Jordan ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Igbo; Inequality; Patron clientism; Reciprocity; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937342166     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141840120095131     Document Type: Article

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