Cargo, cult, and culture critique / edited by Holger Jebens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jebens, Holger.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cargo cults.

Nativistic movements.

Manners and customs.

Melanesia--Religious life and customs.

Melanesia.

Melanesia--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2004]

Contents:

1. Introduction: Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique / Holger Jebens 1

Part I Against Cargo

2. Cargo Cult at the Third Millennium / Lamont Lindstrom 15

3. Dissolving the Self-Other Dichotomy in Western "Cargo Cult" Constructions / Elfriede Hermann 36

4. Neither Traditional nor Foreign: Dialogics of Power and Agency in Fijian History / Martha Kaplan 59

Part II Expanding the Framework

5. Mutual Hopes: German Money and the Tree of Wealth in East Flores / Karl-Heinz Kohl 79

6. Violence and Millenarian Modernity in Eastern Indonesia / Nils Bubandt 92

7. Government, Church, and Millenarian Critique in the Imyan Tradition of the Religious (Papua/Irian Jaya, Indonesia) / Jaap Timmer 117

Part III Cargo as Lived Reality

8. Encountering the Other: Millenarianism and the Permeability of Indigenous Domains in Melanesia and Australia / Robert Tonkinson 137

9. Talking about Cargo Cults in Koimumu (West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea) / Holger Jebens 157

10. From "Cult" to Religious Conviction: The Case for Making Cargo Personal / Stephen C. Leavitt 170

Part IV Comparison and Critique

11. Cargo and Cult: The Mimetic Critique of Capitalist Culture / Doug Dalton 187

12. Work, Wealth, and Knowledge: Enigmas of Cargoist Identifications / Ton Otto 209

13. Thoughts on Hope and Cargo / Vincent Crapanzano 227

14. On the Critique in Cargo and the Cargo in Critique: Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Critical Practice / Joel Robbins 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-282) and index.

ISBN:

0824828143

0824828518

OCLC:

54461914