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Jacques de Morgan's Explorations in the Malay Peninsula, 1884

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Jacques de Morgan’s Explorations in the Malay Peninsula, 1884

SKU: M51 | Year: 2020 | Pages: 225

About

In 1884 a young French mining engineer named Jacques de Morgan (1857–1924) explored the interior of the state of Perak, searching for locations suitable for tin mining. He took meticulous notes of the flora and fauna, the physical environment, and the people he encountered in a world known only to the aboriginal people living there. Morgan’s account of his journey, together with excerpts from several scholarly articles published after his return to France, was published in 2003 in a French-language edition (Paris: CNRS Éditions), and here in English for the first time. The volume is heavily illustrated with Morgan’s own drawings= and includes a day-to-day account of his extraordinary journey. The picture of 19th century Malaya that emerges from this book will be a revelation to modern readers.

This volume benefits from a generous endowment by DYMM Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Azlan Shah, the Sultan of Perak Darul Ridzuan.

The Authors

Andrée Jaunay had a special interest in the career of Jacques de Morgan. In addition to this account of his expedition in the Malay Peninsula, she published a volume entitled Mémoires de Jacques de Morgan, 1857–1924 (Paris: L’Harmattan, 1997).

Antonio J. Guerreiro is senior research associate at IRASIA (CNRS-Aix Marseille University, Marseilles), secretary-general of the Société des Etudes Euroasiatiques, Musée de Quai Branly–Jacques Chirac, Paris, and a consultant to the Sarawak Museum Campus Project (SMCP)/New Sarawak Museum in Kuching, Sarawak.

Christine Lorre is senior curator in Comparative Archaelogy at the Musée d’Archéologie nationale (MAN) and the Domaine national at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Antoine Verney is chief curator, and director of the Bayeux museums in France.

Contents

  • Frontispiece
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface by Geneviéve Dollfus
  • Foreword by Christian Pelras
  • Introduction: Background and Biography, by Andrée Jaunay
  • The Historical Context of Jacques de Morgan’s Journey, by Antonio J. Guerreiro
  • Part One: Jacques de Morgan’s Exploration in the Malay Peninsula
  • The Travel Journal
  • Jacques de Morgan’s Travel Notebooks, by Antoine Verney
  • Part Two: Excerpts from Selected Articles by Jacques de Morgan relating to the Malay Peninsula
  • History of the Malay Peninsula
  • The Neolithic Era in the Malay Peninsula
  • Negritos of the Malay Peninsula: Ethnography and Linguistics
  • On Sakai Concepts of Law
  • Publications on the Negritos in the Malay Peninsula
  • Botany and Zoology
  • The Geology and Mining Industry of Perak and Neighbouring States
  • Part Three: Appendices
  • Additional notes to the travel journal by Antonio J. Guerreiro
  • The Orang Asli populations that Jacques de Morgan encountered during his travels by Antonio J. Guerreiro
  • Ethnographic Collections from the Malay Peninsula (1880-96) in the Trocadero Museum of Ethnology by Antonio J. Guerreiro
  • Introduction to J. de Morgan’s collection from Malaysia at the Musée d’Archéologie nationale(MAN) by Christine Lorre
  • The Jacques de Morgan Collection from the Malay Peninsula. Items not moved to MAN in 2002 by Christine Lorre
  • Preliminary Catalogue of the Collection conserved at MAN
  • A Chronological and Thematic Bibliography of Publications by Jacques de Morgan
  • General Bibliography
  • Map of Perak and Environs prepared by Jacques de Morgan

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