Encounters With the Dani

Encounters With the Dani
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In her most recent body of work, acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas pieces together verbal and visual traces of encounters with the Dani--an indigenous people of the West Papuan highlands--from the nearly six decades since their "discovery" by the West. In this subjective, fragmentary history, Meiselas draws from the experiences of missionaries, colonists, anthropologists and modern-day ecotourists, all of whom have come to the Dani's Baliem Valley and transformed the conditions under which they live. The ambiguous relations between power and representation--whether in the form of Dutch colonial patrol notes from the 1930s, the sensationalized media accounts of the survivors of a downed U.S. army plane in "Shangri-La" from the 1940s or a tourist's snapshots from the 1990s--become visible in Meiselas's book, through both the contradictions and unexpected continuities of the gathered materials.
Country USA
Brand Steidl
Manufacturer Steidl/International Center of Photography
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9783882439304
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Steidl
Manufacturer	Steidl/International Center of Photography
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9783882439304
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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