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Julie Adams

Museum, Magic, Memory

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In 2012, a chance encounter between a curator and a century-old expedition journal occurred in the archives of a Cambridge museum. The journal was written by a young anthropologist, Paul Denys Montague, and recorded his travels in the South Pacific Islands of New Caledonia in 1914, where he became fascinated with the culture of the local Kanak people. Returning to Cambridge at the outbreak of World War One, Montague deposited his journal and a collection of Kanak objects in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and left to join the Royal Flying Corps. A talented artist, musician and member of Rupert Brooke's 'Neo-pagan' set, his promisin… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-90-8890-636-7
  • EAN: 9789088906367
  • Produktnummer: 27455195
  • Verlag: Sidestone Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 318 S.
  • Masse: H26.3 cm x B18.7 cm x D2.5 cm 1'123 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 1123

Über den Autor


Dr. Julie Adams is Curator of the Oceania collections at The British Museum. For the last decade she has curated, researched and written on the histories of Pacific collections in European museums. From 2011-2015, she was Senior Research Fellow at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge and was editor of Artefacts of Encounter: Cook's Voyages, Colonial Collecting and Museum Histories published by Otago University Press in 2016.

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