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Knowledge in Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2011

Kai Kresse  and
Trevor H. J. Marchand
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Africa , Volume 79 , Issue 1: Knowledge in Practice: Expertise and the Transmission of Knowledge , February 2009 , pp. 1 - 16
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