Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique 9780824840440

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique
Part I: Against Cargo
2. Cargo Cult at the Third Millennium
3. Dissolving The Self-Other Dichotomy in Western “Cargo Cult” Constructions
4. Neither Traditional nor Foreign: Dialogics of Power and Agency in Fijian History
Part II: Expanding The Framework
5. Mutual Hopes: German Money and the Tree of Wealth in East Flores
6. Violence and Millenarian Modernity in Eastern Indonesia
7. Government, Church, and Millenarian Critique in the Imyan Tradition of the Religious (Papua/Irian Jaya, Indonesia)
Part III: Cargo as Lived Reality
8. Encountering the Other: Millenarianism and the Permeability of Indigenous Domains in Melanesia and Australia
9. Talking about Cargo Cults in Koimumu (West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea)
10. From “Cult” to Religious Conviction: The Case for Making Cargo Personal
Part IV: Comparison and Critique
11. Cargo and Cult: The Mimetic Critique of Capitalist Culture
12. Work, Wealth, and Knowledge: Enigmas of Cargoist Identifications
13. Thoughts on Hope and Cargo
14. On the Critique in Cargo and the Cargo in Critique: Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Critical Practice
References
Contributors
Index

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