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Inside the Cult: Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Inside the Cult Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea - Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Author: Harvey Whitehouse
For the past thirty years, adherents of a millenarian cult in Papua New Guinea, known as the Pomio Kivung, have been awaiting the establishment of a period of supernatural bliss, heralded by the return of their ancestors bearing "cargo." The author of this book, Harvey Whitehouse, was taken for a reincarnated ancestor, and was able to observe th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198280514
ISBN-10: 0198280513
Publication Date: 8/24/1995
Pages: 248
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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