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Like fire : the Paliau movement and millenarianism in Melanesia / Michael French Smith and Theodore Schwartz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Michael French, author.
- Schwartz, Theodore, author.
- Series:
- Monographs in anthropology series
- Monographs in Anthropology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nativistic movements--Melanesia.
- Nativistic movements.
- Admiralty Islands (Papua New Guinea)--Religion.
- Admiralty Islands (Papua New Guinea).
- Cargo cults--Melanesia.
- Cargo cults.
- Cargo cults--Papua New Guinea--Manus Province.
- Christianity--Papua New Guinea--Manus Province.
- Christianity.
- Manus Province (Papua New Guinea)--Politics and government.
- Manus Province (Papua New Guinea).
- Melanesia--Religious life and customs.
- Melanesia.
- Melanesia--Social life and customs.
- Millennialism--Melanesia.
- Millennialism.
- Millennialism--Papua New Guinea--Manus Province.
- Papua New Guinea--Manus Province--Political culture.
- Papua New Guinea.
- Maloat, Paliau.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 540 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Canberra ANU Press 2021
- Acton, Australian Capital Territory : ANU Press, [2021]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 cc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Description based on print version record.
- OCLC:
- 1292362451
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