Violence and Belonging: Land, Love, and Lethal Conflict in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan
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عنوان ژورنال: Mountain Research and Development
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0276-4741
DOI: 10.1659/mrd.mm067