the detachability of women: gender and kinship in processes of socioeconomic change among the Gusii of Kenya

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  1994

• Venue

  American Ethnologist

• Publication date

  1994-08-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology

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  DOI 10.1525/AE.1994.21.3.02A00040
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