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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.
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Encounters With the Dani, Susan Meiselas
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2003
- Einband
- (Hardcover)
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- Titel
- Encounters With the Dani
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Susan Meiselas
- Verlag
- Steidl
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2003
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 176
- ISBN10
- 3882439300
- ISBN13
- 9783882439304
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Kunst & Kultur, Sozialwissenschaften, Historisches Thema, Reisen, USA, Fotografie, Soziologie, Lebensstil, Indigene Stämme, Indonesien
- Bewertung
- 4,25 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.