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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri; ">Moving Towers: Worlding the Spectacle of Masculinities between South Pentecost and Munich</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; ">The<i> gol</i>, the land dive has long been a spectacular ritual both for the people of the place and foreign tourists in Vanuatu. Annual performance cycles in the south of Pentecost have been relentlessly photographed;
cinematic images of young men diving from the body of the tower have toured far beyond the archipelago in the worlding of this spectacle. Recent scholarly analyses have variously depicted it as a risky game (Lipp 2008), as a carnival of <i>kastom </i>(Tabani
2010)<i>, </i>as a practice of visual consumption and embodied performance (Taylor 2010), as the acknowledged origin of bungee jumping, and as a contested site for claims of intellectual and cultural property (Forsyth 2012). Here I explore how its performance
evinces changing relational masculinities, embodied between indigenous and foreign men (state officials, anthropologists, filmmakers) and the fraught dynamics of its transplantation to other places, as in the display of a miniature land diving tower for an
exhibition at a museum in Munich in June 2009. How has this worlding locally reconfigured men as gendered persons and transformed hegemonic masculinities? How has commoditization and tourism contributed to the emergence of men’s </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">individuated
claims to traditional knowledge as property? What do these ‘moving towers’ reveal about how Pacific cultures move in the global circuits of contemporary tourism?</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Margaret Jolly</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor in Anthropology, Gender and Cultural Studies and Pacific Studies in the School of Culture, History and Language in
the College of Asia and the Pacific and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She is an historical anthropologist who has written extensively on gender in the Pacific, on exploratory voyages and travel writing, missions and contemporary
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<div>Melinda Hinkson</div>
<div>School of Archaeology and Anthropology</div>
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<div>P. +61 02 6125 8246</div>
<div>E. <a href="mailto:melinda.hinkson@anu.edu.au">melinda.hinkson@anu.edu.au</a></div>
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