The rootedness of trees: Place as cultural and natural texture in rural southwest Congo*

Locality and Belonging

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 25-52

  De Boeck, Filip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 85139342608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203450802-3     Document Type: Chapter

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