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Review: Monsterland: a journey around the world’s dark imagination –
Nicholas Jubber (Scribe)
We need each other, people and monsters. Monsters rely on us to exist; they’re
only alive because we create them. And people rely on monsters for a variety of
reasons: a being to explain a particular cultural moment, or a flesh-and-bones
body to represent the “other”, to name just two.
Understanding our fascination with monsters has long occupied the human psyche.
And Nicholas Jubber’s
Monsterland is the latest foray into this territory.
Part cultural inquiry, part history, part travel book and part reportage,
Monsterland tracks down monsters from around the world, recording the stories
people share about them, the rituals those people celebrate and the
contemporary spaces ancient monsters persist in.
“This book isn’t a search for Big Foot or the Loch Ness Monster,” Jubber
explains. “I had no intention of scaling the Himalayas in search of the Yeti
(there are better reasons to go mountain-trekking).”
Instead, he sets out to make sense of the monsters we’ve invented, meet the
people who cherish their stories, and “peer inside the blurry portal between
past and present”."
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
