What happened to cargo cults? Material religions in Melanesia and the west

Social Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 82-102

  Otto, Ton ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cargo cults; Culture critique; Economy; Exchange, Melanesia; Millenarianism; Religion

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349899309     PISSN: 0155977X     EISSN: 15585727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/sa.2009.530106     Document Type: Article

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