Cargo, cult, and culture critique / edited by Holger Jebens. - 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-282) and index.

Introduction : cargo, cult, and culture critique / Cargo cult at the third millennium / Dissolving the self-other dichotomy in Western "cargo cult" constructions / Neither traditional nor foreign : dialogics of power and agency in Fijian history / Mutual hopes : German money and the tree of wealth in East Flores / Violence and millenarian modernity in Eastern Indonesia / Government, church, and millenarian critique in the Imyan tradition of the religious (Papua/Irian Jaya, Indonesia) / Encountering the other : millenarianism and the permeability of indigenous domains in Melanesia and Australia / Talking about cargo cults in Koimumu (West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea) / From "cult" to religious conviction : the case for making cargo personal / Cargo and cult : the mimetic critique of capitalist culture / Work, wealth, and knowledge : enigmas of cargoist identifications / Thoughts on hope and cargo / On the critique in cargo and the cargo in critique : toward a comparative anthropology of critical practice / Holger Jebens -- Lamont Lindstrom -- Elfriede Hermann -- Martha Kaplan -- Karl-Heinz Kohl -- Nils Bubandt -- Jaap Timmer -- Robert Tonkinson -- Holger Jebens -- Stephen C. Leavitt -- Doug Dalton -- Ton Otto -- Vincent Crapanzano -- Joel Robbins. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

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Cargo cults
Nativistic movements


Melanesia--Religious life and customs
Melanesia--Social life and customs

GN472.75 / .C37 2004

306.699925