Mambu
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administrative
Administrative Officers
Areca Nuts
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bogia
Bogia Region
Bolong
cargo
cargo cult studies
Cargo Cults
Cargo Movement
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Category=QRRT
Charismatic Figure
Coconut Fronds
Coconut Palm
Coitus Interruptus
colonial encounter analysis
cults
Doctor Boy
Dream
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Fourth Version
Grass Skirts
Indian record
indigenous belief systems
Jural Group
Kanaka Village
manam
Manam Island
melanesian
Melanesian anthropology
Melanesian Millennium
Melanesian religious movements
millennium
Moral European
movement
officers
Papua New Guinea ethnography
Port Moresby
Primal Myth
region
ritual and symbolism
Seventh Day Adventist
String Bags
Vice Versa
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415330534
- Weight: 800g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 26 Feb 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Mambu is the name of a native of New Guinea who led what has become known as a 'Cargo' cult. These cults, common in Melanesia, are partly religious, political and economic in nature. Participants in the cult engage in exotic rites, the purpose of which is to gain possession of European manufactured goods, such as knives, medicines, razor blades, tinned foods etc.
The volume discusses why these cults occur and examines a way of life of a New Guinea people and their reactions to European penetration and achievement.
First published in 1960.
