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About the Author

Philipp Schorch is Professor of Museum Anthropology at LMU Munich, Germany, where he leads an ERC-funded research project entitled ‘Indigeneities in the 21st Century’ (www.indigen.eu). He is also an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK. Philipp’s research focuses on museums, material culture/history/ theory, contemporary art and (post)colonial histories, the Pacific and Europe, collaborations with Indigenous artists/curators/scholars, and (post)socialisms. He is lead co-author of Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses (University of Hawai’i Press and Otago University Press, 2020), and co-editor of Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond (UCL Press, 2020) and Curatopia: Museums and the Future of Curatorship (Manchester University Press, 2019).

Vilsoni Hereniko is a professor, filmmaker, and artist whose work has shaped Indigenous Pacific studies and contemporary Indigenous media. He is a professor at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Hawai‘i and is widely recognised for bridging ancestral knowledge systems with innovative approaches to performance, film, and cultural analysis. A former director of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawai‘i and the Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture, and Pacific Studies at the University of the South Pacific, he has advanced cultural and intellectual leadership across Oceania and beyond. His publications and creative works illuminate how Indigenous communities sustain identity, language, and relational values while adapting to global change.