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Record Nr.

UNINA9910491846603321

Autore

Smith Michael French

Titolo

Like fire : the Paliau movement and millenarianism in Melanesia / / Michael French Smith and Theodore Schwartz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Acton, Australian Capital Territory : , : ANU Press, , [2021]

©2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 540 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Monographs in Anthropology

Disciplina

299.92

Soggetti

Nativistic movements - Melanesia

Cargo cults - Melanesia

Cargo cults - Papua New Guinea - Manus Province

Christianity - Papua New Guinea - Manus Province

Millennialism - Melanesia

Millennialism - Papua New Guinea - Manus Province

Admiralty Islands (Papua New Guinea) Religion

Manus Province (Papua New Guinea) Politics and government

Melanesia Religious life and customs

Melanesia Social life and customs

Papua New Guinea Manus Province Political culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



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Sommario/riassunto

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.