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Author Lattas, Andrew, 1956-

Title Cultures of secrecy : reinventing race in bush Kaliai cargo cults / Andrew Lattas
Published Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xliv, 360 pages) : illustrations
Series New directions in anthropological writing
New directions in anthropological writing.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-352) and index
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Subject New Tribes Mission.
SUBJECT New Tribes Mission fast
Subject 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
RELIGION -- Ethnic & Tribal.
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)
SUBJECT West New Britain Province (Papua New Guinea) -- Religious life and customs
Subject 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.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585081085
9780585081083
0299158039
9780299158033