Cultures of Secrecy: Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults.(Review)

From: The Contemporary Pacific | Date: September 22, 2000| Author: ROBBINS, JOEL | Copyright information

Cultures of Secrecy: Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults, by Andrew Lattas. New Directions in Anthropological Writing: History, Poetics, Cultural Criticism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. ISBN 0-299-15800-4, cloth; 0-299-15804-7, paper; xliv + 360 pages, maps, glossary, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, US$59.95; paper, US$24.95.

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