ISBN: 9780794600723

Photographer Kal Muller was exploring one of the most remote places on earth: Irian Jaya, the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea and home to the Kamoro people, whose culture, it … Mehr…

Photographer Kal Muller was exploring one of the most remote places on earth: Irian Jaya, the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea and home to the Kamoro people, whose culture, it was widely believed, was extinct. By happenstance Muller stumbled upon an initiation ceremony and uncovered a thriving, traditional way of life. With longtime collaborator David Pickell and two Kamoro friends--Aloysius Akiniyau, a guide, and Apollo Takati, a schoolteacher--Muller set out to rediscover the Kamoro people. Traveling by dugout canoe to survey the farflung villages of the Kamoro Coast, their journey took them from the dusty frontier town of Timika to tiny Lakahia Island. Along 200 miles of twisting mangrove creeks and across the relentless Arafura Sea, they discovered a culture undergoing a delicate, sometimes humorous, and often wrenching process of change. Rejecting the bravado and exoticism of recent accounts, Between the Tides is an engrossing work that combines storytelling, humor, history, natural history, and political and cultural observations. David Pickell's relationship to the Kamoro is sensitive and deeply personal, and Kal Muller's accompanying photographs are dramatic and evocative. Together they present a vivid portrait of how an isolated, nomadic past meets a worldly, urban future, how history confronts superstition, and how a false and imposed sense of shame can yield to a new, yet fragile, pride. Media > Book<

ISBN: 9780794600723

Photographer Kal Muller was exploring one of the most remote places on earth: Irian Jaya, the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea and home to the Kamoro people, whose culture, it … Mehr…

Photographer Kal Muller was exploring one of the most remote places on earth: Irian Jaya, the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea and home to the Kamoro people, whose culture, it was widely believed, was extinct. By happenstance Muller stumbled upon an initiation ceremony and uncovered a thriving, traditional way of life. With longtime collaborator David Pickell and two Kamoro friends--Aloysius Akiniyau, a guide, and Apollo Takati, a schoolteacher--Muller set out to rediscover the Kamoro people. Traveling by dugout canoe to survey the farflung villages of the Kamoro Coast, their journey took them from the dusty frontier town of Timika to tiny Lakahia Island. Along 200 miles of twisting mangrove creeks and across the relentless Arafura Sea, they discovered a culture undergoing a delicate, sometimes humorous, and often wrenching process of change. Rejecting the bravado and exoticism of recent accounts, Between the Tides is an engrossing work that combines storytelling, humor, history, natural history, and political and cultural observations. David Pickell's relationship to the Kamoro is sensitive and deeply personal, and Kal Muller's accompanying photographs are dramatic and evocative. Together they present a vivid portrait of how an isolated, nomadic past meets a worldly, urban future, how history confronts superstition, and how a false and imposed sense of shame can yield to a new, yet fragile, pride. Media > Book<

ISBN: 9780794600723

Photographer Kal Muller was exploring one of the most remote places on earth: Irian Jaya, the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea and home to the Kamoro people, whose culture, it … Mehr…

Photographer Kal Muller was exploring one of the most remote places on earth: Irian Jaya, the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea and home to the Kamoro people, whose culture, it was widely believed, was extinct. By happenstance Muller stumbled upon an initiation ceremony and uncovered a thriving, traditional way of life. With longtime collaborator David Pickell and two Kamoro friends--Aloysius Akiniyau, a guide, and Apollo Takati, a schoolteacher--Muller set out to rediscover the Kamoro people. Traveling by dugout canoe to survey the farflung villages of the Kamoro Coast, their journey took them from the dusty frontier town of Timika to tiny Lakahia Island. Along 200 miles of twisting mangrove creeks and across the relentless Arafura Sea, they discovered a culture undergoing a delicate, sometimes humorous, and often wrenching process of change. Rejecting the bravado and exoticism of recent accounts, Between the Tides is an engrossing work that combines storytelling, humor, history, natural history, and political and cultural observations. David Pickell's relationship to the Kamoro is sensitive and deeply personal, and Kal Muller's accompanying photographs are dramatic and evocative. Together they present a vivid portrait of how an isolated, nomadic past meets a worldly, urban future, how history confronts superstition, and how a false and imposed sense of shame can yield to a new, yet fragile, pride. Media > Book<