The Spirited Earth: Dance, Myth, and Ritual from South Asia to the South PacificThe powers of dance, myth, and ritual link otherwise disparate cultures in this photographic journey through Southern Asia and the South Pacific. Victoria Ginn's gloriously exotic photographs are potent, elemental studies of this mystical, mythic realm. |
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