Egalitarian social organization: The case of the mbendjele baYaka

Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin: Cultures, Histories, and Biology of African Pygmies

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 219-243

  Lewis, Jerome ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203789438     Document Type: Chapter

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