Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Editorial Preface ix
5. Introduction Indigeneity and Museum Practice in the Southwest Pacific 1
6. Part I Island Melanesia
7. 1 Resourcing Change: Fieldworkers, the Women’s Culture Project and the Vanuatu Cultural Centre 23
8. 2 The Future of Indigenous Museums: The Solomon Islands Case 38
9. 3 Dangerous Heritage: Southern New Ireland, the Museum and the Display of the Past 47
10. 4 Memory, Violence and Representation in the Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia 70
11. 5 Tourism and Indigenous Curation of Culture in Lifou, New Caledonia 78
12. Part II Northern Australia
13. 6 The Journey of the Stars: Gab Titui, a Cultural Centre for the Torres Strait 93
14. 7 ‘Quite Another World of Aboriginal Life’: Indigenous People in an Evolving Museumscape 117
15. Part III New Guinea
16. 8 The Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery as a Modern Haus Tumbuna 137
17. 9 Moving the Centre: Christianity, the Longhouse and the Gogodala Cultural Centre 151
18. 10 Indigenous Responses to Political and Economic Challenges: the Babek Bema Yoma at Teptep, Papua New Guinea 170
19. 11 Can Museums become Indigenous? The Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress and Contemporary Papua 190
20. Part IV Reflections on the Future of Indigenous Museums
21. 12 The Transformation of Cultural Centres in Papua New Guinea 207
22. 13 The Theoretical Future of Indigenous Museums: Concept and Practice 223
23. Notes on Contributors 235
24. Bibliography 239
25. Index 255