Like fire : : the Paliau movement and millenarianism in Melanesia / / Michael French Smith and Theodore Schwartz.

Like Fire chronicles an indigenous movement for radical change in Papua New Guinea from 1946 to the present. The movement's founder, Paliau Maloat, promoted a program for step-by-step social change in which many of his followers also found hope for a miraculous millenarian transformation.

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Superior document:Monographs in Anthropology
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Place / Publishing House:Acton, Australian Capital Territory : : ANU Press,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Monographs in anthropology series
Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 540 pages) :; illustrations, maps
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505 0 |a Preface: Why, how, and for whom -- Spelling and pronunciation of Tok Pisin words and Manus proper names -- 'The last few weeks have been strange and exciting' -- 2. Taking exception -- 3. Indigenous life in the Admiralty Islands -- 4. World wars and village revolutions -- 5. The Paliau Movement begins -- 6. Big Noise from Rambutjo -- 7. After the Noise -- 8. The Cemetery Cult hides in plain sight -- 9. The Cemetery Cult revealed -- 10. Comparing the cults -- 11. Paliau ends the Cemetery Cult -- 12. Rise and fall -- 13. The road to Wind Nation -- 14. Wind Nation in 2015 -- 15. Probably not the last prophet -- Appendix A: Pathomimetic behaviour -- Appendix B: Kalopeu: Manus Kastam Kansol Stori -- Appendix C: Lists of thirty rules and twelve rules. 
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