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] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs in anthropology series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 540 pages) :; illustrations, maps |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.