In this article the author tries to analyse cargo cults from the dynamic perspective of social and cultural change in Melanesian societies. To this end he notes the significance of ethno-historic and ethnographic facts demonstrating Melanesian societies' capacity for change before and after contact with Europeans. From this cargo cults appear as traditional mechanisms of social change. The approach developed here contrasts with certain interpretations which see cargo cults as an essentially non-traditional response to contact with Europeans and use this contact situation as a framework for analysis, especially the process of acculturation. Finally the author tries to show, through a number of examples, that cargo cults are a response to dif...
International audienceThis article describes the relationships between the Yolngu, an Aboriginal peo...
This dissertation examines the ways in which a Papua New Guinean people, the Maisin of Collingwood B...
This thesis draws upon existing bodies of work on 'culture change', 'exchange' and 'person' in Melan...
In this article the author tries to analyse cargo cults from the dynamic perspective of social and c...
In contrast to a strong tendency in recent studies of Melanesian religious and political movements t...
This volume, bringing together six ethnographic papers and an epilogue first presented at ASAO sessi...
It seems that the variety of expression in Melanesian salvation movements, more commonly referred to...
Kaima Sam T. The evolution of cargo cults and the emergence of political parties in Melanesia. In: J...
pp. 1-59Scope and Content: This length article examines social change in response to rapid technolog...
Who is not captivated by tales of Islanders earnestly scanning their watery horizons for great fleet...
Recent studies on social changes in Melanesia initiated by contact with the West could be divided in...
Missionaries constitute one of the major external influences upon the lives of the indigenous popula...
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of cultural and economic change in Auhelawa, a rural, ind...
Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and th...
In this thesis I examine processes of economic and social change and the ways in which they have tra...
International audienceThis article describes the relationships between the Yolngu, an Aboriginal peo...
This dissertation examines the ways in which a Papua New Guinean people, the Maisin of Collingwood B...
This thesis draws upon existing bodies of work on 'culture change', 'exchange' and 'person' in Melan...
In this article the author tries to analyse cargo cults from the dynamic perspective of social and c...
In contrast to a strong tendency in recent studies of Melanesian religious and political movements t...
This volume, bringing together six ethnographic papers and an epilogue first presented at ASAO sessi...
It seems that the variety of expression in Melanesian salvation movements, more commonly referred to...
Kaima Sam T. The evolution of cargo cults and the emergence of political parties in Melanesia. In: J...
pp. 1-59Scope and Content: This length article examines social change in response to rapid technolog...
Who is not captivated by tales of Islanders earnestly scanning their watery horizons for great fleet...
Recent studies on social changes in Melanesia initiated by contact with the West could be divided in...
Missionaries constitute one of the major external influences upon the lives of the indigenous popula...
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of cultural and economic change in Auhelawa, a rural, ind...
Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and th...
In this thesis I examine processes of economic and social change and the ways in which they have tra...
International audienceThis article describes the relationships between the Yolngu, an Aboriginal peo...
This dissertation examines the ways in which a Papua New Guinean people, the Maisin of Collingwood B...
This thesis draws upon existing bodies of work on 'culture change', 'exchange' and 'person' in Melan...