Engaging with history by performing tradition: The poetic politics of indigenous Australian festivals

The State and the Arts: Articulating Power and Subversion

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 47-60

  Henry, Rosita ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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