{"product_id":"encounters-with-the-dani-3882439300","title":"Encounters With the Dani","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3882439300\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Meiselas, Susan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67821774635296,"sku":"NEW3882439300","price":74.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91vp4wUBPaL.jpg?v=1792203684","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/encounters-with-the-dani-3882439300","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}