Holding up the Sky: Gender, age and work among the Abaluyia of Kenya

Ageing in Africa: Sociolinguistic and Anthropological Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 155-176

  Cattell, Maria G ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

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