Like fire : the Paliau movement and millenarianism in Melanesia

Like fire the Paliau movement and millenarianism in Melanesia

Like Fire chronicles an indigenous movement for radical change in Papua New Guinea from 1946 to the present. The movement's founder, Paliau Maloat, promoted a program for step-by-step social change in which many of his followers also found hope for a miraculous millenarian transformation.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Smith, Michael French, author (author), Schwartz, Theodore, author
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Acton, Australian Capital Territory : ANU Press [2021]
Series:Monographs in anthropology series
Subjects:
Maloat, Paliau.
Nativistic movements > Melanesia.
Cargo cults > Melanesia.
Cargo cults > Papua New Guinea > Manus Province.
Christianity > Papua New Guinea > Manus Province.
Millennialism > Melanesia.
Millennialism > Papua New Guinea > Manus Province.
Admiralty Islands (Papua New Guinea) > Religion.
Manus Province (Papua New Guinea) > Politics and government.
Melanesia > Religious life and customs.
Melanesia > Social life and customs.
Papua New Guinea > Manus Province > Political culture.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009605741106719
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Why, how, and for whom
  • Spelling and pronunciation of Tok Pisin words and Manus proper names
  • 'The last few weeks have been strange and exciting'
  • 2. Taking exception
  • 3. Indigenous life in the Admiralty Islands
  • 4. World wars and village revolutions
  • 5. The Paliau Movement begins
  • 6. Big Noise from Rambutjo
  • 7. After the Noise
  • 8. The Cemetery Cult hides in plain sight
  • 9. The Cemetery Cult revealed
  • 10. Comparing the cults
  • 11. Paliau ends the Cemetery Cult
  • 12. Rise and fall
  • 13. The road to Wind Nation
  • 14. Wind Nation in 2015
  • 15. Probably not the last prophet
  • Appendix A: Pathomimetic behaviour
  • Appendix B: Kalopeu: Manus Kastam Kansol Stori
  • Appendix C: Lists of thirty rules and twelve rules.

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