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Mambu

A Melanesian Millennium

Kenelm Burridge

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik

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Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians had long believed that the sign of the millennium would be the arrival of their ancestors in ships bearing lavish material goods, and they interpreted the advent of European vessels as the fulfillment of these expectations. As it became apparent that the Europeans meant to keep the goods and to colonize the people, scores of small-scale revolts known as cargo cults emerged as attempts to secure the cargo and thereby preserve the people's most cherished religious beliefs: native aspirations for individual and cultural redemption fastened on local charismatic leaders, of whom Mambu was the greatest.

Originally published in 1995.

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Injunction, Neglect, New Guinea, Good and evil, Wealth, Adoption, Disgust, Duty to rescue, Bride price, Suggestion, Competition, Prick, Anecdote, Bushcraft, Carelessness, Copra, Warfare, Indication (medicine), Adultery, Antipathy, Disaster, Hygiene, Sectionalism, Scarcity, Revitalization movement, Criticism, Cynicism (contemporary), Hinterland, Spouse, Institution, Travels (book), Labour battalion, Rationing, Cultural diversity, Engagement, Vailala Madness, Co-operation (evolution), Crime, Excommunication, Generosity, V., Areca nut, Carpetbagger, Household, Cash crop, Obedience (human behavior), Tax, Before the Fact, Celibacy, Antithesis, Manam, Imprisonment, Ghost Dance, Moral responsibility, Disenchantment, Coitus interruptus, Intelligentsia, The Other Hand, Missionary (LDS Church), Xenophobia, Political correctness, Foray, Self-sufficiency, New Departure (Democrats), Anathema, Fishing, Theft, Hypocrisy, Leading question, Racism