Cargo Cult as Theatre: political performance in the Pacific.(Book Review)

Oceania | September 1, 2003| | Copyright

Cargo Cult as Theatre: political performance in the Pacific By Dorothy K. Billings. Lanham: Lexington Books. 2002. Pp. x + 267. Price: unknown.

This is a concise and highly readable description of the origins and development of the so-called 'Johnson Cult' based on nearly forty years of field research in New Hanover and New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. The main story begins at a Methodist mission station on the South coast of New Hanover in February 1964. Government patrol officers were seeking to administer the election of regional candidates for membership of the ...

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