‘In sexual life women are hunters’: AIDS and women who drain men's bodies. The case of the meru of Northern Tanzania

Society in Transition

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 47-55

  Haram, Liv ^a  

^a NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

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EID: 85007859361     PISSN: 10289852     EISSN: 20721951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2001.10419029     Document Type: Article

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