Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique /

Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique / / ed. by Holger Jebens.

Cargo cults have long exerted a remarkable attraction on Westerners, and the last decade has seen the publication of much new work on the subject. This collection of original essays is based on fieldwork in Melanesia, Fiji, Australia, and Indonesia by scholars who are influential in the contemporary...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bubandt, Nils,
Crapanzano, Vincent,
Dalton, Doug,
Hermann, Elfriede,
Jebens, Holger,
Kaplan, Martha,
Kohl, Karl-Heinz,
Leavitt, Stephen C.,
Lindstrom, Lamont,
Otto, Ton,
Robbins, Joel,
Timmer, Jaap,
Tonkinson, Robert,
HerausgeberIn:
Jebens, Holger,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique
  • Part I: Against Cargo
  • 2. Cargo Cult at the Third Millennium
  • 3. Dissolving The Self-Other Dichotomy in Western "Cargo Cult" Constructions
  • 4. Neither Traditional nor Foreign: Dialogics of Power and Agency in Fijian History
  • Part II: Expanding The Framework
  • 5. Mutual Hopes: German Money and the Tree of Wealth in East Flores
  • 6. Violence and Millenarian Modernity in Eastern Indonesia
  • 7. Government, Church, and Millenarian Critique in the Imyan Tradition of the Religious (Papua/Irian Jaya, Indonesia)
  • Part III: Cargo as Lived Reality
  • 8. Encountering the Other: Millenarianism and the Permeability of Indigenous Domains in Melanesia and Australia
  • 9. Talking about Cargo Cults in Koimumu (West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea)
  • 10. From "Cult" to Religious Conviction: The Case for Making Cargo Personal
  • Part IV: Comparison and Critique
  • 11. Cargo and Cult: The Mimetic Critique of Capitalist Culture
  • 12. Work, Wealth, and Knowledge: Enigmas of Cargoist Identifications
  • 13. Thoughts on Hope and Cargo
  • 14. On the Critique in Cargo and the Cargo in Critique: Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Critical Practice
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index

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