Performance and narrative, bodies and movement in the construction of places and objects, spaces and knowledges: The case of the Maltese megaliths

Theory, Culture and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages

  Turnbull, David ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Narrativity; Performativity; Post processualism; Spatiality; Theatres of knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036819564     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026327602761899183     Document Type: Review

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