Wyn sargent biography of alberta
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On decolonial feminism and indigenous communities
Sargent argued that her marriage helped make “peace” since it brought together three rival tribes in villages she had lived while studying and photographing the Dani people.
Wyn sargent biography of alberta
It is a Dani custom, she said, that one’s friends get together and celebrate on such big occasions.
The "marriage" was done for the sake of humanity, she said. She also believed that her expulsion was due the fact that she was a white witness to the increasingly savagery of the police to the villagers, than to the official complaints made against her.
But the public knew her as an American woman who took advantage of her marriage with the tribal chief to “study primitive sex practices”.
She then published People of the Valley, her testimony of her endeavors to break down long-standing animosities between clans in Baliem Valley and strengthen their ability to cope with the racist administration.
She then filed a complaint of “the brut