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Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium
Kenelm Burridge
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Description for Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 346 pages, 29 illus. 5 maps and diagrams. BIC Classification: 1MKL; HRAC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the cargo cults of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians had long believed that the sign of the millennium would be the arrival of their ancestors in ships bearing lavish material goods, and they interpreted the advent of European vessels as the fulfillment of these expectations. As it became apparent that the Europeans meant to keep the goods and to colonize the people, scores of small-scale revolts known as cargo cults emerged as attempts to secure the cargo and thereby preserve the people's most cherished religious beliefs: ... Read more
Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the cargo cults of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians had long believed that the sign of the millennium would be the arrival of their ancestors in ships bearing lavish material goods, and they interpreted the advent of European vessels as the fulfillment of these expectations. As it became apparent that the Europeans meant to keep the goods and to colonize the people, scores of small-scale revolts known as cargo cults emerged as attempts to secure the cargo and thereby preserve the people's most cherished religious beliefs: ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
346
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691631738
SKU
V9780691631738
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Reviews for Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium
This is a book not just about cargo cults or even about millenarianism generally but about the ways humans strive to make sense of the most wrenching kinds of upheavals in their lives. What sets Mambu apart from the array of other works on these cults is Burridge's philosophical-one might almost say existentialist-perspective. No less fully than others does he ... Read more