Performing culture as political strategy: The garma festival, northeast Arnhem land

Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 109-122

  Phipps, P ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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