Localized kin and globalized friends: Religious modernity and the ‘educated self’ in East Africa

The Anthropology of Friendship

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages 169-184

  Aguilar, Mario I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781003135821-10     Document Type: Chapter

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