Suffering Grass: Subsistence and Society of Waso Borana

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Department of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1979 - 287 pages

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TitleSuffering Grass: Subsistence and Society of Waso Borana
Issue 8 of Stockholm studies in social anthropology, ISSN 0347-0830
AuthorGudrun Dahl
PublisherDepartment of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1979
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized15 May 2008
ISBN9185284149, 9789185284146
Length287 pages
  
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