The President of the gold diggers: Sources of power in a gold mine in Burkina Faso

Ethnos

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 95-111

  Werthmann, Katja ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Big Man; Burkina Faso; Gold Mining; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044901721     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0014184032000060380     Document Type: Article

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