Cargo Cult as Theater: Political Performance in the Pacific

The Australian Journal of Anthropology | January 1, 2006| | Copyright

Dorothy K. Billings. Cargo Cult as Theater: Political Performance in the Pacific. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2002. Pp.x + 267, references, index. $US90.00 (Hc.), ISBN 0-7391-0238-9.

This book is ostensibly a history of the Johnson cult on the island of New Hanover in Papua New Guinea. It begins with rich ethnographic detail presented almost as a travel diary documenting a series of encounters with missionaries, government officials, plantation managers and local villagers. But the book concludes with subtle comparative analyses of how cargo cults may be linked to certain kinds of social ...

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