Learning in Retirement Lectures presents “A Stone Age Collision with the 20th Century: The Dani of Papua." The Dani culture of Papua was isolated from the rest of the world until the mid 20th Century. They were then governed by the Dutch and later by Indonesia. Sally will describe and illustrate their fascinating pre-contact culture and show the conditions as she found them in 1993, and bring us up to date with more current happenings. After graduation from Pomona College with a major in Botany, Sally became a teacher. She was teaching Jr. High math and science and traveling in summers, when a chance dinner date with an Ecuadorian guide in Peru gave her the idea to start her own travel business. She was thinking small when she named it Peruvian Adventures, but after a few years of concentrating only on that country, she branched out to places that both she and her clients found interesting. This presentation was made possible by the Lifestyle Enrichment Department and was recorded on April 27, 2022.

Run Time 01:17:26

First Run 5/14/2022