"This is de test": Festival and the cultural politics of nation building in the British Virgin Islands

American Ethnologist

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 189-214

  Cohen, Colleen Ballerino ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

British Virgin Islands; Caribbean; Citizenship; Creolization; Festival; National identity; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032263828     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.1998.25.2.189     Document Type: Article

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