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Raymond C. Kelly, The Nuer Conquest: the structure and development of an expansionist system. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1985, 320 pp., 0 472 10064 5 hardback, 0-472 08056 3 paperback.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

Pierre Bonte
Pierre Bonte
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Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Social, CNRS, Paris
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Africa , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , January 1987 , pp. 123 - 125
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Copyright © International African Institute 1987

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