Cargo Cult Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond

• मुख्य लेखक: Lindstrom, Lamont (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: University of Hawai'i Press 2018
• विषय: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Social & cultural anthropology
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Who is not captivated by tales of Islanders earnestly scanning their watery horizons for great fleets of cargo ships bringing rice, radios and refrigerators - ships that will never arrive? Of all the stories spun about the island peoples of Melanesia, tales of cargo cult are among the most fascinati...