Cargo Cult as Theater: Political Performance in the Pacific.(Book Review)

From: The Contemporary Pacific | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

by Dorothy K Billings. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002. ISBN 0-7391-0238-9; X + 267 pages, maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, US$90.00.

One Melanesian cargo cult hit primetime news in 1964. The 22 June issue of Newsweek breathlessly asked, "What Price LBJ?" The article went on to report that people on New Hanover, in Papua New Guinea's Bismarck Archipelago, had raised money to "'buy' President [Lyndon Baines] Johnson, who would then rule the island--bringing with him, of course, cargoes of Hershey bars, cigarettes, and other luxuries. Before long, ...

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