Choreographing difference: The (body) politics of Banaban dance

Contemporary Pacific

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-94

  Teaiwa, Katerina Martina ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Banaba; Body; Dance; History; Identity; Kiribati; Rabi

Indexed keywords

ART; BODY CONDITION; CULTURAL HISTORY; KINSHIP; POST-COLONIALISM;

GILBERT ISLANDS; KIRIBATI;

EID: 84857285919     PISSN: 1043898X     EISSN: 15279464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cp.2012.0006     Document Type: Article

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