Cargo Cult - Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond. Oceania | June 1, 1996| | COPYRIGHT 1996 University of Sydney. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Lindstrom has written an interesting book which is full of insights but also full of inconsistencies. The best part of the book is the first half; the most problematic part is the second half and especially the last chapter. The book is a genealogy of how the concept 'cargo cult' has been used in Melanesia and in the West. Lindstrom analyses not only how the West has used the term to characterise Melanesian practices but also how Melanesians have taken up the concept - in nationalist discourses that sometimes celebrate it and other times use it in derogative ways to demean ...

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