How to Hold a Festival in the Cook Islands

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Reading the entrails: Digesting posthuman entanglement
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Eating together online: The ambivalent conviviality of ASMR videos
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Francis Russell

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Shared food conversations: Jason Phu and Nagesh Seethiah
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A good dinner party: Food as a medium for social change
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Ashley Crawford

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Make your moment in Pacific history and hang the cost. On 15 October 1992 Raratongans waited expectantly for their 2000 guests from 23 other Pacific countries to arrive for the 6th Pacific Festival of Arts.

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