Mambu : : A Melanesian Millennium / / Kenelm Burridge.
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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| 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 ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (346 p.) :; 29 illus. 5 maps and diagrams |
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