Mobile phones and wrong numbers: how Maasai agro-pastoralists form and use accidental social ties in East Africa
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Baird, T. D., J. McCabe, E. Woodhouse, I. Rumas, S. Sankeni, and G. O. Saitoti. 2021. Mobile phones wrong numbers: how Maasai agro-pastoralists form use accidental social ties in East Africa. Ecology Society 26(2):41. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12528-260241
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology and Society
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1708-3087']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5751/es-12528-260241