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Voices from “Under-the-Garland“: Singing, Christianity, and Cultural Transformations in Chuuk, Micronesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Brian Diettrich
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One way to theorize a history of native articulations is to historicize the processes of conversions to Christianity in terms of Native agencies whose investments in Christianity tactically invert and then displace canonical narratives. (Vicente M. Diaz 2010)

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 43 , 2011 , pp. 62 - 88
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Copyright © 2011 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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