Philipp Schorch is Professor of Museum Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany
Conal McCarthy is Professor and Director of the Museum and Heritage Studies Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand

Introduction: conceptualising Curatopia - Philipp Schorch, Conal McCarthy and Eveline Dürr

Part I: Europe
1 The museum as method (revisited) - Nicholas Thomas
2 What not to collect? Post-connoisseurial dystopia and the profusion of things - Sharon Macdonald and Jennie Morgan
3 Concerning curatorial practice in ethnological museums: an epistemology of postcolonial debate - Larissa Förster and Friedrich von Bose
4 Walking the fine line: From Samoa with Love? at the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich - Hilke Thode-Arora
5 Curating across the colonial divides - Jette Sandahl
6 Thinking and working through difference: remaking the ethnographic museum in the global contemporary - Viv Golding and Wayne Modest

Part II: North America
7 The times of the curator - James Clifford
8 Baroque modernity, critique and Indigenous epistemologies in museum representations of the Andes and Amazonia - Anthony Alan Shelton
9 Swings and roundabouts: pluralism and the politics of change in Canada's national museums - Ruth B. Phillips
10 Community engagement, Indigenous heritage and the complex figure of the curator: foe, facilitator, friend or forsaken? - Bryony Onciul
11 Joining the club: a Tongan 'akau in New England - Ivan Gaskell
12 c'?sna??m, the City before the City: exhibiting pre-Indigenous belonging in Vancouver - Paul Tapsell

Part III: Pacific
13 The figure of the kaitiaki: learning from Maori curatorship past and present - Conal McCarthy, Arapata Hakiwai and Philipp Schorch
14 Curating the uncommons: taking care of difference in museums - Billie Lythberg, Wayne Ngata and Amiria Salmond
15 Collecting, curating and exhibiting cross-cultural material histories in a post-settler society - Bronwyn Labrum
16 Curating relations between 'us' and 'them': the changing role of migration museums in Australia ­- Andrea Witcomb
17 Agency and authority: the politics of co-collecting - Sean Mallon
18 He alo a he alo / kanohi ki te kanohi / face to face: curatorial bodies, encounters and relations - Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu, Moana Nepia and Philipp Schorch

Afterwords
19 Curating time - Ian Wedde
20 Virtual museums and new directions? - Vilsoni Hereniko
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