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Chapter 14 - Not Here for the Disciplines:

Researching with and for the Pacific

from Part III - Interpreting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2024

By
Katerina Teaiwa
Edited by
Tracy C. Davis  and
Paul Rae
Tracy C. Davis
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Illinois
Paul Rae
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
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Summary

Katerina Teaiwa explores the relationship between embodied knowledges, indigenous identity, and place-making in South Pacific dancing. Her studies, training, and experience highlight the issues of how to decolonize something without decolonizing its form. Teaiwa demonstrates how dance is embodied and emplaced for Indigenous people of the Pacific islands: her own Banaban, I-Kiribati, and African American heritage influences her approach, pedagogy, and values rooted in kinship, reciprocity, and a deep connection to land and sea. Methods and means for experiencing this epistemology are shared through exhibition curation.

Keywords

Indigenous knowledgedancedecolonizing methodsreciprocityembodimentPacific identity
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The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies , pp. 272 - 283
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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References

Teaiwa, K. M. (2015). Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Google Scholar

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