'My daughter ... belongs to the government now': Marriage, Maasai and the Tanzanian state

Gender, Family and Work in Tanzania

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 200-219

  Hodgson, Dorothy L ^a  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

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