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  • Errata:Contemporary Pacific Vol. 24, No. 1 (2012)

Page 67 of Katerina Teaiwa's article on "Choreographing Difference: The (Body) Politics of Banaban Dance," in The Contemporary Pacific 24:1 erroneously included mention of Tuvalu with regard to reserve funds from phosphate mining. The last two sentences of paragraph 3 should read as follows:

"Reserve funds, generated from the income from the extraction and shipping of twenty million tons of phosphate under British colonial administration, served as a giant savings account with which to launch the independent state of Kiribati (see Williams and Macdonald 1985 and Van Trease 1993). This account is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars and is earning interest in banks around the globe." [End Page 219]

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