Searching for symbolic value of cattle: Tropical livestock units, market price, and cultural value of Maasai livestock

Ethnobiology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 76-86

  Quinlan, Robert J ^a   Rumas, Isaya ^b   Naisikye, Godfrey ^c   Quinlan, Marsha B ^a   Yoder, Jonathan ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lorboisoit   (Tanzania)

^c Terat   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

East Africa; Ethnographic science; Ethnozoology; Gender and marriage; Pastoralism; Smallholder household wealth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994750415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21598126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14237/ebl.7.1.2016.621     Document Type: Article

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