Choreographing Difference: The (Body) Politics of Banaban Dance

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2012
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Teaiwa, Katerina Martina
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University of Hawai‘i Press
Center for Pacific Islands Studies
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This article discusses Banaban choreography as an expression of historical and postcolonial identities and, more specifically, relations between Banabans and I-Kiribati in terms of what I understand as the Banaban production of difference through dance. This process is shaped by a strategic approach to representing and reconstructing the past and kinship. I explore some of the tensions around history, kinship, and performance that resulted from the impact of phosphate mining and eventual displacement of Banabans from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (now Kiribati and Tuvalu) to Rabi in Fiji. I also discuss how this research opens up possibilities for a more corporeal approach to Pacific studies.
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Banaba, Kiribati, Rabi, history, dance, body, identity, Oceania -- Periodicals
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Teaiwa, K. M. 2012. Choreographing Difference: The (Body) Politics of Banaban Dance. The Contemporary Pacific 24 (1): 65-94.
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31 pages
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