In printStandard scholarly referenceWritten from inside the tradition
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.