Philipp Schorch is a professor of museum anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, leading an ERC-project entitled »Indigeneities in the 21st Century«. He is also an honorary senior research associate at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on museums, material culture/history/theory, contemporary art and (post)colonial histories, the Pacific and Europe, and collaborations with Indigenous artists/curators/scholars.
Daniel Habit (Dr.) is a senior lecturer at the Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universiät in Munich, where he received his PhD with a thesis on the concept of The European Capital of Culture programme of the European Union. His current research project in cooperation with the DFG funded research group »Urban Ethics« deals with diverse processes of transformation in Bucharest from a urban and moral anthropology perspective.

Frontmatter 1
Inhalt/Contents 5
Acknowledgments 9
Introduction 11
1. Vergangenheit, was tun? 31
2. Monuments and Memorial Spaces of Socialist Bulgaria 57
3. Curating Out the Socialist Alternative 81
4. Kunstobjekte auf der Drehbühne der Geschichte 101
5. Re-curated Remains 123
6. Beyond Horseplay 141
7. (Re-)curating Africa 165
8. Curator's Trade in Ideals 185
9. Rehearsal for Lumumba 207
10. Aus Häusern und Containern 237
11. Handgezeichnete Afrikakarten in ihrem Entstehungsumfeld der DDR 263
12. "Verstoßene Soldaten" - verstoßene Helden? 281
13. Curating Socialism? Curating Democracy! 309
Afterword 331
Contributors to this Volume 339