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Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique / ed. by Holger Jebens.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780824828141
  • 9780824840440
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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
Summary: Cargo cults have long exerted a remarkable attraction on Westerners, and the last decade has seen the publication of much new work on the subject. This collection of original essays is based on fieldwork in Melanesia, Fiji, Australia, and Indonesia by scholars who are influential in the contemporary debate on cargo. Conceived as a reader for undergraduate and graduate courses, the volume offers an up-to-date view of the subject and the debates it arouses among contemporary anthropologists.Some contributors plead for the abolition of "cargo" because of its troublesome implications, but also because, in the authors' view, cargo cults do not exist as identifiable objects of study. Others argue that it is precisely this troublesome nature that makes the term a useful analytical tool that should be welcomed rather than rejected. By delineating and substantiating key issues and positions in this lively and ongoing debate, this volume underscores and refines the contemporary reevaluation of cargo cults. Scholars of the Pacific region and others interested in new religious movements should find this volume both enlightening and compelling. Contributors: Nils Bubandt, Vincent Crapanzano, Douglas M. Dalton, Elfriede Hermann, Holger Jebens, Martha Kaplan, Karl-Heinz Kohl, Stephen C. Leavitt, Lamont Lindstrom, Ton Otto, Joel Robbins, Jaap Timmer, Robert Tonkinson.
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Frontmatter -- 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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Cargo cults have long exerted a remarkable attraction on Westerners, and the last decade has seen the publication of much new work on the subject. This collection of original essays is based on fieldwork in Melanesia, Fiji, Australia, and Indonesia by scholars who are influential in the contemporary debate on cargo. Conceived as a reader for undergraduate and graduate courses, the volume offers an up-to-date view of the subject and the debates it arouses among contemporary anthropologists.Some contributors plead for the abolition of "cargo" because of its troublesome implications, but also because, in the authors' view, cargo cults do not exist as identifiable objects of study. Others argue that it is precisely this troublesome nature that makes the term a useful analytical tool that should be welcomed rather than rejected. By delineating and substantiating key issues and positions in this lively and ongoing debate, this volume underscores and refines the contemporary reevaluation of cargo cults. Scholars of the Pacific region and others interested in new religious movements should find this volume both enlightening and compelling. Contributors: Nils Bubandt, Vincent Crapanzano, Douglas M. Dalton, Elfriede Hermann, Holger Jebens, Martha Kaplan, Karl-Heinz Kohl, Stephen C. Leavitt, Lamont Lindstrom, Ton Otto, Joel Robbins, Jaap Timmer, Robert Tonkinson.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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