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

Publication: Oceania
Publication Date: 01-SEP-03
Format: Online - approximately 759 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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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 a...

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...field research in New Hanover and New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. The main story begins at 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 National House of Assembly in Pon Moresby. But on the dawn of election day, officials emerged from their beds to...

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