Why do contemporary art curators define their work as ethnography? How can curation illuminate the practice of contemporary anthropology? Does anthropology risk disappearing as a specific discipline within the general model of the curatorial? This book brings together the research of international scholars in order to explore these questions.

List of FiguresContributor biographies1. Introduction: Anthropology and Curation through the Looking Glass, Roger Sansi (University of Barcelona, Spain)2. Curatorial Designs in the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography Today: Act II, Tarek Elhaik (University of California, Davis, USA) and George Marcus (University of California, Irvine, USA)3. The Recursivity of the Curatorial, Jonas Tinius (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin , Germany) and Sharon Macdonald (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)4. Whose Stories about Africa? Reflexivity and Public Dialogue at the Royal Ontario Museum, Silvia Forni (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto and University of Toronto, Canada)5. Facing the Curatorial Turn: Anthropological Ethnography, Exhibitions, and Collecting Practices, Ivan Bargna (The University of Milano-Bicocca and Bocconi University, Italy)6. Anecdote-ing as a Curatorial Tactic for the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective, Ethnographic Terminalia 7. Coming Together Differently: Art, Anthropology and the Curatorial Space, Judith Winter (Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, UK) 8. From of, to With, to and? Curation and Collaboration in Inter-disciplinary Exhibition Making, Jen Clarke (Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, UK) 9. Curating the Intermural Graffiti in the Museum 2008-2018, Rafael Schacter (University College London, UK)10. The Curator, the Anthropologist: 'Presentialism' and Open-ended Enquiry in Process, Alex Flynn (Durham, UK) 11. Between Automation and Agency. Curatorial Challenges in New Terrains of Digital/Visual Research, Eva Theunissen (University of Antwerp, Belgium) and Paolo S. H. Favero (University of Antwerp, Belgium) 12. Anthropological Sound Curation. From Listening to Curating. Noel Lobley (University of Virginia, USA)BibliographyIndex