Future of Indigenous Museums

Nick Stanley is Director of Research and Chair of Postgraduate Studies at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England. He has worked on collections and display within museums of Oceanic materials both in Melanesia as well as Europe and North America. His current work is on the artistic production of the Asmat people in West Papua.

• List of Figures Editorial Preface by Hirini Mead Introduction: Indigeneity and Museum Practice in the Southwest Pacific Nick Stanley PART I: ISLAND MELANESIA Chapter 1. Resourcing Change: Fieldworkers, the Women's Culture Project and the Vanuatu Cultural Centre Lissant Bolton Chapter 2. The Future of Indigenous Museums: The Solomon Islands Case Lawrence Foana'ota Chapter 3. Dangerous Heritage: Southern New Ireland, the Museum and the Display of the Past Sean Kingston Chapter 4. Memory, Violence and Representation in the Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia Diane Losche Chapter 5. Tourism and Indigenous Curation of Culture in Lifou, New Caledonia Tate LeFevre PART II: NORTHERN AUSTRALIA Chapter 6. The Journey of the Stars: Gab Titui, a Cultural Centre for the Torres Strait Anita Herle, Jude Philp and Leilani Bin Juda Chapter 7. "Quite Another World of Aboriginal Life": Indigenous People in an Evolving Museumscape Eric Venbrux PART III: NEW GUINEA Chapter 8. The Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery as a Modern Haus Tumbuna Sebastian Haraha Chapter 9. Moving the Centre: Christianity, the Longhouse and the Gogodala Cultural Centre Alison Dundon Chapter 10. Indigenous Responses to Political and Economic Challenges: the Babek Bema Yoma at Teptep, Papua New Guinea Christin Kocher Schmid Chapter 11. Can Museums become Indigenous? The Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress and Contemporary Papua Nick Stanley PART IV: REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE OF INDIGENOUS MUSEUMS Chapter 12. The Transformation of Cultural Centres in Papua New Guinea Robert L. Welsch Chapter 13. The Theoretical Future of Indigenous Museums: Concept and Practice Christina Kreps Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

"...the most thorough examination to date of museums in the south-west Pacific...The book should serve as a valuable resource for museum studies students, academics, historians, museum professionals and development agencies interested in museums and the cultural heritage of Indigenous people in the south-west Pacific." * Recollections