Introduction : how gender works, in the practice of theory and other social processes / Gracia Clark -- Concepts of gender within economic change. Archeology and the gender without history / F. Ann Pyburn. Rain and cattle : gendered structure and political economy in precolonial Pare, Tanzania /...

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