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Museum, Magic, Memory - Curating Paul Denys Montague (Paperback)
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Museum, Magic, Memory - Curating Paul Denys Montague (Paperback)
Series: Pacific Presences, 8
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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 & Anthropology
and left to join the Royal Flying Corps. A talented artist,
musician and member of Rupert Brooke's 'Neo-pagan' set, his
promising career was cut short when his plane was shot down in
Salonika in 1917. Montague's research and the objects he collected
lay untouched for a century. Their rediscovery brought these
materials and the histories they contained to new life, opening up
a range of contemporary connections between past and present,
Britain and New Caledonia, Europeans and Kanak, the idea of the
museum and the art of curation. Museum, Magic, Memory explores the
complex encounters between history, biography, museology and
collecting that characterize the work of curation in the
twenty-first century.
General
Imprint: |
Sidestone Press
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Country of origin: |
Netherlands |
Series: |
Pacific Presences, 8 |
Release date: |
May 2021 |
Authors: |
Julie Adams
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Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
318 |
ISBN-13: |
978-90-889063-5-0 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
90-889063-5-1 |
Barcode: |
9789088906350 |
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