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Road Belong Cargo: A Study of the Cargo Movement in the Southern Madang District, New Guinea
Road Belong Cargo A Study of the Cargo Movement in the Southern Madang District New Guinea
Author: Peter Lawrence
The 1940s and 1950s were marked by an efflorescence of Melanesian cargo cult activities--periodic movements in which native people deeply believed they could attain abundant European goods (and the status that these goods seemed to assure) by ritual means. Road Belong Cargo has long been the authoritative account of the cargo phenomenon in ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780881334586
ISBN-10: 0881334588
Pages: 293
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Publisher: Waveland Press
Book Type: Paperback
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