Chiefs, subchiefs and local control: Negotiations over land, struggles over meaning

Africa

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 389-412

  Goheen, Mitzi ^a  

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EID: 84971921006     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: 17500184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1159749     Document Type: Article

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