“…As Martha Macintyre succinctly puts it, 'For women to gain the control over their own lives and bodies that "eliminating violence" entails, men are going to have to lose it ' (2012: 239 Views from Papua New Guinea, on the other side of the island, describe masculinities in crisis (Knauft 2011) and new articulations of male identity through monetary prowess, commodity consumption, sexual practices and Christian values (Bainton 2008;Cox and Macintyre 2014;Martin 2013). In Papua, the biggest ideological threats to indigenous masculinities are the discourses that relegate cultural practices and values to the tribal past and position culture and black racial heritage as something to be ashamed of (Munro 2015;Stasch 2015).…”