Witchcraft in Statecraft: Five Technologies of Power in Colonial and Postcolonial Coastal Kenya

African Studies Review

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 119-141

  Ciekawy, Diane ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85011482290     PISSN: 00020206     EISSN: 15552462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/525356     Document Type: Article

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