Debts and trespasses: Land, mortgages, and the ancestors in western Kenya

Africa

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 357-388

  Shipton, Parker ^a  

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EID: 84971955147     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: 17500184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1159748     Document Type: Article

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