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 FiguresEditorial Prefaceby Hirini MeadIntroduction: Indigeneity and Museum Practice in the Southwest PacificNick StanleyPART I: ISLAND MELANESIAChapter 1. Resourcing Change: Fieldworkers, the Women’s Culture Project and the Vanuatu Cultural CentreLissant BoltonChapter 2. The Future of Indigenous Museums: The Solomon Islands CaseLawrence Foana‘otaChapter 3. Dangerous Heritage: Southern New Ireland, the Museum and the Display of the PastSean KingstonChapter 4. Memory, Violence and Representation in the Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New CaledoniaDiane LoscheChapter 5. Tourism and Indigenous Curation of Culture in Lifou, New CaledoniaTate LeFevrePART II: NORTHERN AUSTRALIAChapter 6. The Journey of the Stars: Gab Titui, a Cultural Centre for the Torres StraitAnita Herle, Jude Philp and Leilani Bin JudaChapter 7. ‘Quite Another World of Aboriginal Life’: Indigenous People in an Evolving MuseumscapeEric VenbruxPART III: NEW GUINEAChapter 8. The Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery as a Modern Haus TumbunaSebastian HarahaChapter 9. Moving the Centre: Christianity, the Longhouse and the Gogodala Cultural CentreAlison DundonChapter 10. Indigenous Responses to Political and Economic Challenges: the Babek Bema Yoma at Teptep, Papua New GuineaChristin Kocher SchmidChapter 11. Can Museums become Indigenous? The Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress and Contemporary Papua Nick StanleyPART IV: REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE OF INDIGENOUS MUSEUMSChapter 12. The Transformation of Cultural Centres in Papua New GuineaRobert L. WelschChapter 13. The Theoretical Future of Indigenous Museums: Concept and PracticeChristina KrepsNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

“…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