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Original Articles

Territorializing ethnicity: the imposition of a model of statehood on pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia

Pages 857-874 | Received 25 Jan 2011, Accepted 08 Sep 2011, Published online: 15 Nov 2011

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