Title Mambu : a Melanesian millennium / Kenelm Burridge

Published London : Methuen, [1960] London : Methuen, 1960

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W'PONDS	299.92 Bur/Mam		AVAILABLE

Description xxiii, 296 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm Contents Prologue -- The New Guinea scene -- The people -- The myth-dream -- Cargo -- Appendices. A-B Summary Examines the ̀Cargo cults' of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and the 1950s, from a political, social and philosophical point of view Notes Include index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-288) and index Subject Acculturation -- Papua New Guinea. Cargo cults -- Papua New Guinea. Cargo cults. Ethnology -- New Guinea. Nativistic movements -- Papua New Guinea. SUBJECT Melanesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083370 -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007663 New Guinea. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091290 LC no. cvf00005015

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