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'It was the money that burned the house': ethnography, moral economies and agricultural interventions in Northern Mozambique

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'It was the money that burned the house': ethnography, moral economies and agricultural interventions in Northern Mozambique. / Howell, Katharine.
Lancaster University, 2019. 232 p.

Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

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Howell, K 2019, ''It was the money that burned the house': ethnography, moral economies and agricultural interventions in Northern Mozambique', PhD, Lancaster University. https://doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/671

APA

Howell, K. (2019). 'It was the money that burned the house': ethnography, moral economies and agricultural interventions in Northern Mozambique. [Doctoral Thesis, Lancaster University]. Lancaster University. https://doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/671

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Howell K. 'It was the money that burned the house': ethnography, moral economies and agricultural interventions in Northern Mozambique. Lancaster University, 2019. 232 p. doi: 10.17635/lancaster/thesis/671

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Howell, Katharine. / 'It was the money that burned the house' : ethnography, moral economies and agricultural interventions in Northern Mozambique. Lancaster University, 2019. 232 p.

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