Sessions, Papers and Meetings of Interest WEDNESDAY Resource Frontiers as Disaster Areas Wednesday, Union Square, 2:30pm Alex

J Golub Bags and Bilums In Transition: Circulating Identity and Status In Melanesia Wednesday, 2:45pm, Golden Gate 1 Kathleen Barlow ETHNOGRAPHY OF IMAGINARY CULTURES: STORIED INNOVATIONS Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 4:00 PM-5:45 PM Hilton San Francisco, Union Square 15-16 The Truth of a 'True Story': Wealthy Snakes and Armed Robbers Susanne Kuehling (University of Regina) Narrating Alterity In the Cultural Tourism Encounter In the Trobriand Islands Michelle D MacCarthy (University of Auckland) The Politics of Novelizing and the Imagined Audience Katherine Dernbach (Independent Scholar) Stranger Than Fiction: Reflection and Generation of a Culture of Sustainability In Ernest Callenbachs /Ecotopia / Roger Ivar Lohmann (Trent University) Discussant Rena Lederman (Princeton University) THURSDAY Exploring the Collections and Relations of A.C. Haddon At the Smithsonian Thursday, 8:15am, Union Square 19-20 Luke Arthur Lavin Ethnographic Border Crossings and the Rise of a Global Pacific Thursday, 10:45, Continental 5 Maria Lepowsky Gwaubali anga: Explorations In Kwara ae Constructions of Mental Illness and Delusion Thursday, 1:45pm, Golden Gate 6 Karen A Watson-Gegeo PhD (University of California, Davis) and David W Gegeo (University of Canterbury) Decolonising Eurocentric Research Practices: Perspectives From Melanesian Methodologies Thursday, 4pm Continental 8

Trisia Angela Farrelly, David Gegeo and Unaisi Nabobo-Baba Landscapes of Fear and Social Memory On Erromango, Vanuatu Thursday, 4:30pm, Franciscan D James Flexner Navigating Adolescence Through Social Change In Fiji: Ambition, Demoralization, Social Adversity, and Resilience Thursday, 4:45pm Anne Becker Roads to Recovery: Traversing the Border Between Health and Illness In Tautu, Vanuatu Thursday, 5:30pm, Golden Gate 7 Ashley Vaughn FRIDAY "A Society Divided: Death, Personhood, and Christianity in Auhelawa, Papua New Guinea" Friday 8:00, Union Square 22 Ryan Schram Sacred Speakers, Profane Land: Individualist Christians, Dividualist Villages, and the Translation of the Guhu-Samane Language Friday 8:45, Union Square 22 Courtney Handman Kiriwina Converts: Christian Dividual Personhood and Agency In the Trobriands Friday, 10:15am, Union Square 22 Mark Mosko Representations of Indigenous Epistemologies In HIV/AIDS Policies of Papua New Guinea Friday, 11am David Bennett *MIG Sponsored Panel* NEW DISPOSSESSIONS: IMAGINING NON-MATERIAL ORIGINS FOR ACCUMULATION Friday, 8am-11:45am, Continental 6 Organized by Paige West, Papers by: David Lipset, Edvard Hviding, Tate LeFevre, Jamon Halvaksz, Jenny Peachey, Jerry Jacka and others MANA: TRANSLATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF A CLASSIC CONCEPT IN ANTHROPOLOGY Friday, 8:00 AM-11:45 AM, Union Square 19-20 Organized by Matt Tomlinson and Ty Tengan 8:00am The Mana of Ku: Indigenous Nationhood, Masculinity, and Authority In Hawaii

Ty P.K. Tengan (University of Hawai'i) 8:15 AM Ai Afu [Eating Sweat]: The Mana and Ethics of the Fat Pastors Body In Independent Samoa Jessica A Hardin (Brandeis University) 8:30 AM The Meanings of Mena In North Vanuatu: Ecology, Christianity and the Shifting Forms of Efficacious Potency In the Torres Islands Carlos Mondragon (El Colegio de Mexico and El Colegio de Mexico) 8:45 AM Museums, Mana, and Sovereignty In Contemporary Oceania Ping Ann Addo (University of Massachusetts at Boston) and Christopher Fung (University of Massachusetts Boston) 9:00 AM Restoring Codrington: Polynesian Influence On Central Melanesian Mana Thorgeir S Kolshus (University of Oslo) 9:15 AM Discussant Bradd Shore (Emory University) 9:30 AM Discussion 9:45 AM Break 10:00 AM Tracing the Translation of Mana In Fiji Matt Tomlinson (Australian National University and Australian National University) 10:15 AM Historicizing Manama's Mana Vicente M. Diaz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 10:30 AM The Grammar of Power: Mana and Possessions Alexander D Mawyer (Lake Forest College) 10:45 AM From Mana to Anointing: Reformulating Indigenous Fijian Agency Through Global Pentecostalism Karen J Brison (Union College) 11:00 AM A T - V [Time-Space] Critique of Tapu and Mana As Manifestations of Harmony and Beauty Tevita Orson Ka'ili (Brigham Young University Hawai'i) and 'Okusitino Mahina (Vava'u Academy for Critical Inquiry) 11:15 AM Discussant Niko Besnier (University of Amsterdam) MIG Business Meeting!: Friday 6:15-7:30, Union Square 8 SATURDAY Structures of Sentiment: Distinct Social Attitudes Predict Giving, Taking, and Costly Punishment in a Fijian Village Saturday (Poster Row Blue) Matthew Gervais and Daniel Fessler

Calling Networks and Kerekere: The Role of Mobile Phones In Fijian Rural-Urban and Transnational Exchange Practices Saturday, 3pm, Union Square 12 Ryan Peseckas Sepik People, Sepik Places: The Dead Among the Living Saturday 12:15pm, Continental 3 Nancy Sullivan Coacting Empathy: Fieldwork Among the Langalanga, Solomon Islands Saturday, 4pm, Union Square 3-4 Pei-Yi Guo SUNDAY FROM "STONE-AGE" TO "REAL-TIME": TEMPORALITIES AND MOBILITIES IN AND BEYOND PAPUA Sunday, 8am-11:45am Organized by Christian Raimund Warta and Martin Slama 8:00am Technological Performances: Demonstrating the Stone Age In Dutch New Guinea Danilyn Rutherford (University of California Santa Cruz) 8:15 AM Figures of the Primitive In Papuan Self-Representations: Korowai Transformations of Tourist and State Evolutionist Ideologies Rupert Stasch (UCSD Anthropology) 8:30 AM The Asmat Tradition Over Time: The Extent of Change Astrid de Hontheim (Universit de Mons) 8:45 AM Biblical Historiographies for the Papuan Nation Jaap Timmer (Macquarie University) 9:00 AM Dancing Koreri In and Beyond Jakarta Christian Raimund Warta (Macquarie University) 9:15 AM Dreams Made Small: Humiliation, Stigma and Dani Aspirations Jenny Munro (University of Calgary) 9:30 AM Break 9:45 AM Appropriating Surveillance: Dani Moral Strategies and Human Rights Primitivism Jacob A Nerenberg (University of Toronto) 10:00 AM Living and Dying In HIV-Land: Old Constraints and New Possibilities In Papua Leslie Butt (University of Victoria and University of Victoria) 10:15 AM Exploring Networked Governance of Torture In Papua-Indonesia Budi Hernawan (Australian National University and Australian National University) 10:30 AM National Technologies and Ontopologies Eben Kirksey (City University of New York - Graduate Center)

10:45 AM Dynamics of (Trans)Local Elite Struggles: The Case of the Papuan Customary Council During the Third Congress of the Papuan People I Ngurah Suryawan Suryawan MA (State University of Papua) 11:00 AM Papua As An Islamic Frontier? Multiple Muslim Imaginaries Martin Slama (Austrian Academy of Sciences AAS) 11:15 AM Discussant Andrew C Willford (Cornell University) PACIFIC MASCULINITIES Sunday, 10:15-1:00pm, Powell Organizers: David Lipset and Martha Macintyre 10:15am Pacific Masculinities: An Overview and a Suggested Re-Orientation David Lipset (University of Minnesota) and Martha Adele Macintyre (The University of Melbourne) 10:30 AM I Am a Better Husband and Father Than My Own Father Was Holly Wardlow (University of Toronto) 10:45 AM Domestic Bliss? Masculinity and Home-Making In Port Vila, Vanuatu Maggie I Cummings (University of Toronto) 11:00 AM Modernizing Fathers and Postcolonial Manhood Among Eastern Iatmul Eric Silverman (Wheelock College) 11:15 AM Break 11:30 AM Strategies for the Defence of Masculine Power and Prestige In Samoa Penelope Schoeffel (National University of Samoa and National University of Samoa) and Malama Meleisea (National University of Samoa) 11:45 AM Pacific Beserkers to Christian Moderns: Dual Discourses of Alcohol and Masculinity In Manokwari, West Papua Sarah Louise Hewat (University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne and University of Melbourne) 12:00 PM Size and Sociality: the Genders of Social Change In Highland Papua New Guinea Thomas Strong (National University of Ireland Maynooth) 12:15 PM Geometrics and Pacific Masculinities Pauline McKenzie Aucoin (Concordia University) 12:30 PM A Sea of Masculinities Deborah Elliston (Binghamton University, SUNY) THE EDGES OF SEX AND HIV IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA Sunday, 12:15 PM-2:00 PM, Lombard

Organized by Gil Herdt and Katherine Lepani 12:15 PM Opposite Persons and People with Gender: Talking about Sex and Gender, Nature and Culture At a PNG Highlands Nursing School Barbara Andersen (New York University and New York University) 12:30 PM Intimate Consumption and Sexual Stigma: Embodiment, HIV Rights, and Cultural Transformation Across Time Among the Sambia of Papua New Guinea) Gilbert Herdt (San Francisco State University) 12:45 PM Break 1:00 PM Positive Sex, Positive Prevention: HIV, Relational Personhood, and Participation In National Identity-Making Katherine M Lepani (Australian National University) 1:15 PM Seizing the Moment: Towards Sexual Citizenship In Papua New Guinea Christine Stewart (Australian National University) 1:30 PM Global Rights In Local Realities: Negotiating Changing Notions of Sexual and Reproductive Contagion and Rights Amongst Women Living with HIV In Papua New Guinea Angela Kelly (Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research and University of New South Wales) 1:45 PM Discussant Lenore H Manderson (Monash University)