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Cargo, Cult and Culture Critique.(Book review)
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Oceania
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November 1, 2007
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- Tabani, Marc
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Cargo, Cult and Culture Critique Edited by Holger Jebens Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2004. Pp: 294 Price: US $25
This collection of papers has been presented at a workshop in Aarhus, Denmark, in 1999. Its main issues neither deal with millenarian movements alone, nor are they restricted to Melanesian cultures. Cargo cults, as one of the most famous themes in the history of melanesianist anthropology, stand here mainly as a pretext to debate about post-modern culture-critical approaches to culture. First thing, for Holger Jebens in his introduction and summary of the different papers, is to stress the leading deconstructionist purposes of most authors of this book ...
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Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique.(Book Review)
The Contemporary Pacific;
September 22, 2005 ;
Smith, Michael French;
787 words
......critiques of the term cargo cult ; discussions of...phenomena described as cargo cults as themselves critiques...interpretations of cargo cults or other exotic...of the notion of cargo cult itself receives...criticisms of the cargo cult concept must ...
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Cargo Cults and Discursive Madness.
Oceania;
June 1, 2000 ;
Dalton, Doug;
787 words
......culture, Melanesian 'cargo cults' are therefore...and nativize 'cargo cult' behaviors at...liberation in cargo cult 'madness.' Yet...dysfunctionality of 'cargo cults,' should be done...phenomenon of 'cargo cult.' I then consider...going mad' of ...
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Cargo Cult Horror.
Oceania;
June 1, 2000 ;
Lindstrom, Lamont;
787 words
......analyses of cargo cults offer certain...storylines. Cargo cults have been plotted...stories in which cargo cults get accounted...retrospective of cargo cults has to be a...still tenacious cargo outbursts and...participation in cargo cult stories. ...
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(book reviews)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;
September 1, 1995 ;
Lattas, Andrew;
787 words
......s new book on cargo cults is worth reading...use the label 'cargo cult' to criticize...political use of the cargo cult concept in contemporary...Lindstrom that cargo cults do not exist...get rid of the cargo cult concept by contextualizing...deconstruction ...
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Introduction.
Oceania;
June 1, 2000 ;
Dalton, Doug;
787 words
......retrospective' and the idea of 'cargo cult' seemed a likely candidate...critique of the term 'cargo cult' had been taking place...1985) unraveling of 'cargo cult.' It had received renewed...history. Yet the term 'cargo cult' was and is yet being...abandoning the term ...
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John Frum
The Manila Times;
July 16, 2008 ;
Wootton, Mike;
518 words
......stuff. He is the figurehead of a "cargo cult," which has a belief that the things...probability of this happening. Cargo cults have existed around the Pacific...will provide. It's certainly not a cargo cult but it is a strong and unhealthy...
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Cargo Cult - Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond.
Oceania;
June 1, 1996 ;
Lattas, Andrew;
787 words
......the concept 'cargo cult' has been used...the concept of cargo cult. The conspiracy...the end, that cargo cult has won through...resonance of cargo cult with certain...discussions of cargo cult continue today...explain how 'cargo cult' is used ...
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Ned Kelly died for our sins. (Aboriginal Histories, Aboriginal Myths)
Oceania;
December 1, 1994 ;
Rose, Deborah Bird;
787 words
...Images of 'cargo cults' glitter with enticements. They offer...the fairest of them all. Images of cargo cults both configure and confine the exotic...There is, to be sure, much more to cargo cults than my imagery suggests. For a start...
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Becoming sinners: Christianity and desire among the Urapmin of Papua New...
Ethnology;
September 22, 1998 ;
Robbins, Joel;
787 words
......to be described as a cargo cult by some social scientist...the means employed in cargo cults (the rituals that mimic...evident, traditional cargo cult theory suggests that...accepted understandings of cargo cults and Urapmin millennial...
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Memory, forgetting and the New Tribes Mission in West New Britain.
Oceania;
June 1, 1996 ;
Lattas, Andrew;
787 words
......memories created by cargo cults which are still...a clandestine cargo cult developed around...millenarianism of cargo cults which had been...Contemporary Kaliai cargo cult stories tell of...served to validate cargo cult understandings...
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Cargo Cult as Theater: Political Performance in the Pacific
The Australian Journal of Anthropology;
January 1, 2006 ;
Lattas, Andrew;
787 words
...Dorothy K. Billings. Cargo Cult as Theater: Political Performance...comparative analyses of how cargo cults may be linked to certain kinds...assumptions about natives and cargo cults, Billings also challenges anthropological assumptions about cargo cults. She proposes ...
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Cargo Cult as Theater: Political Performance in the Pacific.(Book Review)
The Contemporary Pacific;
March 22, 2004 ;
Lindstrom, Lamont;
787 words
......index. Cloth, US$90.00. One Melanesian cargo cult hit primetime news in 1964. The 22...Anthropologists, too, interested themselves in cargo cult. Dorothy Billings arrived in 1965 to...New Ireland. Overviews of Melanesian cargo cults have commonly featured the Johnson...two main ...
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Kago und Kastom: Zum Verhaltnis von Kultureller Fremd- und...
Pacific Affairs;
December 22, 2007 ;
Schneider, Katharina;
787 words
......indigenous understandings of cargo cults (kago kalt in Melanesian...administration feared was a cargo cult. In Valentine's field notes...some Nakanai identify as cargo cults. Here, the author relies...the first mentioning of cargo cults, and his methods of inquiry...The ...
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cargo cults
Dictionary of the Social Sciences;
Craig Calhoun;
168 words
...cargo cults A type of religious movement associated primarily with Melanesia and the...deliverers of the goods. See also millenarianism or millennialism . The cargo cults have been a rich and well‐traveled subject of modern anthropology...
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