Mambu - A Melanesian Millennium

Summary

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 fulfillmen

Product details

• Authors: Kenelm Burridge, Burridge Kenelm
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2014
• EAN: 9780691602196
• ISBN: 978-0-691-60219-6
• No. of pages: 346
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; Bollingen Series; Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology