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Encounters With the Dani | 
 enlarge | Creator: Susan Meiselas
Publisher: Steidl/International Center of Photography
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 865599
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 7.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 3882439300
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783882439304
ASIN: 3882439300
Publication Date: October 2003
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Product Description
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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