Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique / Holger Jebens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jebens, Holger, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cargo cults.

Nativistic movements.

Melanesia--Religious life and customs.

Melanesia.

Melanesia--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2004]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Cargo cults have long exerted a remarkable attraction on Westerners, and the last decade has seen the publication of much new work on the subject. This collection of original essays is based on fieldwork in Melanesia, Fiji, Australia, and Indonesia by scholars who are influential in the contemporary debate on cargo. Conceived as a reader for undergraduate and graduate courses, the volume offers an up-to-date view of the subject and the debates it arouses among contemporary anthropologists.Some contributors plead for the abolition of "cargo" because of its troublesome implications, but also because, in the authors' view, cargo cults do not exist as identifiable objects of study. Others argue that it is precisely this troublesome nature that makes the term a useful analytical tool that should be welcomed rather than rejected. By delineating and substantiating key issues and positions in this lively and ongoing debate, this volume underscores and refines the contemporary reevaluation of cargo cults. Scholars of the Pacific region and others interested in new religious movements should find this volume both enlightening and compelling. Contributors: Nils Bubandt, Vincent Crapanzano, Douglas M. Dalton, Elfriede Hermann, Holger Jebens, Martha Kaplan, Karl-Heinz Kohl, Stephen C. Leavitt, Lamont Lindstrom, Ton Otto, Joel Robbins, Jaap Timmer, Robert Tonkinson.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

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

Part I: Against Cargo

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

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

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

Part II: Expanding The Framework

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

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

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

Part III: Cargo as Lived Reality

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

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

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

Part IV: Comparison and Critique

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

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

13. Thoughts on Hope and Cargo / Crapanzano, Vincent

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

References

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824840440

0824840445

OCLC:

1013936185