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Cultures of secrecy : reinventing race in bush Kaliai cargo cults
- Title
- Cultures of secrecy : reinventing race in bush Kaliai cargo cults / Andrew Lattas.
- Author
- Lattas, Andrew, 1956-
- Publication
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | GN671.N5 L35 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xliv, 360 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- New directions in anthropological writing
- Uniform Title
- New directions in anthropological writing.
- Subject
- New Tribes Mission
- New Tribes Mission
- Cargo cults > Papua New Guinea > West New Britain Province
- Acculturation > Papua New Guinea > West New Britain Province
- West New Britain Province (Papua New Guinea) > Race relations
- Culte du cargo > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > West New Britain
- Acculturation
- Cargo cults
- Cargo-Kult
- Ethnische Beziehungen
- Cargo cults
- Acculturatie
- Culte du cargo > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Nouvelle-Bretagne (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée)
- Acculturation > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Nouvelle-Bretagne (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée)
- West New Britain Province (Papua New Guinea) > Religious life and customs
- West New Britain (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Vie religieuse
- Papua New Guinea > West New Britain Province
- New Britain Insel > Südwest
- Papua-Neuguinea
- Nouvelle-Bretagne (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Vie religieuse
- Nouvelle-Bretagne (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Relations interethniques
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-352) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Traditional Bush Kaliai Society and the Arrival of Ol Waitskin -- 2. The Early History of Cargo Cults in the Kaliai Area -- 3. Punishment and Utopia: Death, Cargo Cult Narratives, and the Politics of the Underground -- 4. Race, Gender, and Geographies of Guilt: Christianity and Kaliai Myths of Matriarchy -- 5. Sexuality, Reproduction, and the Utopia of Mirror Worlds -- 6. Androgynous Imagery, Sexuality, and the Procreative Powers of the Imagination -- 7. Mimesis, Transgression, and the Raising of White Children -- 8. Kaliai Cargo Cults and the New Tribes Mission -- Select Glossary of Frequently Used Melanesian Pisin and Mouk Terms.
- ISBN
- 0299158004
- 9780299158002
- 0299158047
- 9780299158040
- LCCN
- 97044008
- OCLC
- ocm38023990
- 38023990
- SCSB-413873
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library