Library of DanceDances of Haiti
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Dances of Haiti

Katherine Dunham · UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies · 1983

Why this source matters

Dunham's 1930s Haitian fieldwork, written by a dancer-anthropologist who was initiated into the practices she describes; the model for movement-first documentation of Afro-diasporic dance and the ancestor text of Caribbean dance studies.

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