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 interpreted the advent of European vessels as the fulfillment of these expectations. As it became apparent that the Europeans meant to keep the goods and to colonize the people, scores of small-scale revolts known as cargo cults emerged as ...
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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 interpreted the advent of European vessels as the fulfillment of these expectations. As it became apparent that the Europeans meant to keep the goods and to colonize the people, scores of small-scale revolts known as cargo cults emerged as attempts to secure the cargo and thereby preserve the people's most cherished religious beliefs: native aspirations for individual and cultural redemption fastened on local charismatic leaders, of whom Mambu was the greatest. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" Ink marks inside front cover and on first page upper right corner, else pages clean; binding tight; remnants of store sticker on front cover, else moderate wear to covers. 296 pages. Illustrated. Examines cargo cults.
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Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7æ"-9æ" tall. Harcover, russet cloth bodly lettered in silver on spine, in price-clipped dust-jacket. 296pp., Brief Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 2-color line frontispiece, 16 half-tone photographsic plates and 5 line illustrations in the text. First British edition. This copy from the Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. Library with their stamp on title-page and in lower margin of page 101, as well as on top edge of bulked sheets, no other marks. An important and early anthropoliogical study of a little known phenomenon. The title is taken from the given name of a native New Guinean who started the cargo cult, circa 1935. Similar to other messianic movements, Burridge's first hand account is a scholarly examination of the religious, political, and economic aspects which make up the cult. A clean, square, unmarked copy [but for Harcourt stamps mentioned above]. Dust-jacket chipped and worn overall. A very good copy in a good dust-jacket.
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2-Color Frontis, 16 Halftone Playes, Line Drawings in Text. Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8 Vo. 1st printing; dj w/triangle of paper loss(see image), unclipped price, in myla; 296 clean, unmarked pages/index.
