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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#4BA524">Siobhan McDonnell, ANU</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#006FC9">Masters of Modernity: Property, Landownership and Masculine Desire</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121">Abstract. </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121">In the last two decades, a large-scale land rush has taken place in Vanuatu with over ten percent
of the customary estate now leased. On Efate Island, which hosts the capital city of Port Vila and which provides the major site for the ethnographic research outlined in this seminar, 43.6 percent of land previously held under customary tenure is now leased.
Many of these leases hug the coastline—56.5 percent of the coastline of Efate Island is now leased—limiting Indigenous access to the most arable land and much of the coastal estate.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"> In Melanesia, concepts of land as foundational to identity exist alongside–often in tension with–the formal market for land which is regulated by the state. What then are the
implications for emplaced identity that flow from the leasing of customary land? This seminar draws on concepts of personhood and property to discuss both the instrumentality of legal processes in the exclusion of Indigenous people from landscapes in Vanuatu,
and the central role that local Indigenous actors play in these processes of land transformation.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121">Concepts of personhood in Melanesia have long discussed the tension between
relationally constituted persons, and Western, Enlightenment constructs of the individual. Contrary to these theories which posit binary models, aspects of agency are best located along a continuum of personhood. Legal identities actively structure personhood
by defining social relationships to property. The idea of a possessive individual is foundational to claims of ‘custom ownership’. In this paper, I explore personhood by considering the agency of powerful men engaged in leasing customary land. I wish to consider
how ‘masters of modernity’ manipulate various spheres of power and authority, including the introduced (modern) and kastom sphere. The agency of masters of modernity is actively contoured by: the specific legal identity of ‘custom owner’; increased opportunities
to access cash and status available through leasing land; rival claims to chieftainship; and the desire to assert personal authority over landscapes and people. This agency is expressed in the context of social transformations in relationships to customary
land as an expression of individual, masculine desire.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Jennifer Alexander, ANU</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Migration, Imagination and Identity in<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">From Semi-darkness to Semi-light: Rupture,<br>
Reproduction and Transformation in Trobriand Christian Conversion</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of Melbourne</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Revisiting Nostalgia as a Diasporic Cultural<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">R.A. Kartini: How a Nineteenth-Century<br>
Epistolary Self Became a Floating Signifier in Indonesian Gender Politics</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Heather Horst, University<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Free Culture and Mobile Phone Gift Economies<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Mundane Multiculture and the Spatialities<br>
of Mundane Governance</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of Sydney</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Calculation”: Open Defecation Free Certification in Laos and Beyond</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Mundane Governance: The Fascinating World<br>
of University Timetabling</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Matt Tomlinson</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Associate Professor of Anthropology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Links:
<a href="http://anuanthropology.weblogs.anu.edu.au/" id="LPNoLP"><span style="color:#7232AD">ANU Anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/tomlinson-ma" id="LPNoLP">
<span style="color:#006FC9">My research</span></a> <a href="http://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/program/MANPS" id="LPNoLP">
<span style="color:red">MAPS Program</span></a> <a href="http://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/monographs-anthropology" id="LPNoLP">
<span style="color:#4BA524">ANU Press Monographs in Anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/monographs-anthropology/new-mana" id="LPNoLP">
<span style="color:#D05C12">New Mana</span></a> <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-monologic-imagination-9780190652814?cc=au&lang=en&" id="LPNoLP">
<span style="color:black">Monologue</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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