| #1161588 in Books | University of Hawaii Press | 1993-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .63 x5.52 x8.36l, | File type: PDF | 288 pages | |
Who is not captivated by tales of Islanders earnestly scanning their watery horizons for great fleets of cargo ships bringing rice, radios and refrigerators - ships that will never arrive? Of all the stories spun about the island peoples of Melanesia, tales of cargo cult are among the most fascinating.
The term cargo cult, Lamont Lindstrom contends, is one of anthropology's most sucessful conceptual offspring. Like culture, worldview and ethnicity, its usage has s...
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