Mambu : : A Melanesian Millennium /

Mambu : : A Melanesian Millennium / / Kenelm Burridge.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Burridge, Kenelm,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1995
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:With a New preface by the author
Language:English
Series:Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology ; 608
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Physical Description:1 online resource (346 p.) :; 29 illus. 5 maps and diagrams
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • MAPS AND DIAGRAMS
  • Author's Note
  • Preface to the 1995 Edition
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • CHAPTER I. The New Guinea Scene
  • CHAPTER II. The People
  • CHAPTER III. The People
  • CHAPTER IV. The People
  • CHAPTER V. The Myth-dream
  • CHAPTER VI. The Myth-dream
  • CHAPTER VII. The Myth-dream
  • CHAPTER VIII. Cargo
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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