Table of Contents
Dedication
Author’s Note
How to Survive on Land and Sea
Human Remains project
Asmat bis poles
We don’t do sensationalism
Diary of a missing anthropologist
Returning to Dutch New Guinea
New job prospects
An unexpected discovery
Computer problems
The Anti-Colonial Brigade
Bad news
Tropenmuseum in upheaval
An acquisition trip to Ow
Zelda seeks guidance
Mission Museum Steyl
Asmat baptisms
Paving the way
Breaking with the past
Have faith
Reprimanding Zelda
Asmat rituals and ethnic art dealers
A missing collection
Restitution of our ancestors
Setting priorities
Exceptions to the rule
Fishing in Kopi
A fifty-year-old dispute
Did you spill the beans?
Considering blackmail
Can’t this wait?
Date night
Break-in at the Tropenmuseum
Nick Mayfield’s journal
Give back what is not yours
A letter to Pepijn
Quality above quantity
Lashing out
Surveying the jungle
Gallery Visser
Ancestor worship
Shady provenance
The physical anthropologist’s hut
MS Bali III
Pepijn calls the police
A welcome opportunity
At your service
A DNA match
Sins of the past
Sculptures from the Rainforest
Reading Group Questions
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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