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Like fire : the Paliau movement and millenarianism in Melanesia /

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. Drawi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Schwartz, Theodore (Autor), Smith, Michael French (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Australian National University Press
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton, ACT : ANU Press, 2021.
Colección:Monographs in anthropology series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 rules.