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indigenous churches and political movements. The term has largely fallen out of favour and is now seldom used among anthropologists, though its use as a metaphor (in the sense of engaging in ritual action to obtain material goods) is widespread outside of anthropology in popular commentary and critique, based on stereotypes of cargo cultists as "primitive and confused people who use irrational means to pursue rational ends". Recent scholarship on "cargo cults" has challenged the suitability of the term for the movements associated with it, with recent anthropological sources arguing that the term is born of colonialism and prejudice and does not accurately convey the diversity or nature of the movements within the label, though some anthropologists continue to see the term as having some descriptive value, despite the "heterogeneous, uncertain, and confusing ethnographic reality".
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indigenous people, but the foreigners had unfairly gained control of these objects through malice or mistake. Thus, a characteristic feature of cargo cults was the belief that spiritual agents would, at some future time, give much valuable cargo and desirable manufactured products to the cult members. The goods promised by prophets and the means by which they would arrive both changed with the times, across eras of
Western colonization. The earliest known cults foretold their ancestors with the goods would arrive on a canoe, then by sail, then by steamship, and the goods could be matches, steel, or
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the goods the people desire, and ushering in a reign of eternal bliss. The people therefore prepare themselves for the Day by setting up cult organizations, and by building storehouses, jetties, and so on to receive the goods, known as âcargoâ in the local pidgin
English. Often, also, they abandon their gardens, kill off their livestock, eat all their food, and throw away their money.
1990:-style economy. The movement began with a promised return to a golden age of ancestral potency. Minor alterations to priestly practices were undertaken to update them and attempt to recover some kind of ancestral efficacy. Colonial authorities saw the leader of the movement, Tuka, as a troublemaker, and he was exiled, although their attempts to stop him returning proved fruitless.
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Pacific during the last few decades. In these movements, a prophet announces the imminence of the end of the world in a cataclysm which will destroy everything. Then the ancestors will return, or God, or some other liberating power, will appear, bringing all
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drinking (which had been suppressed by missionaries) and to maintain historic traditions. The movement predicted
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or actions imitative of colonial practices, like flag-raising and marching. Cargo cults often served to unite previously opposing groups. In some movements, the leaders engaged in authoritarian behaviour in order to uphold the new social order, with a particular focus on the issues of sorcery and
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Stemming directly from religious teaching of equality, and its resulting sense of injustice, is what is generally known as âVailala Madnessâ, or âCargo Cultâ. . . . A native, infected with the disorder, states that a great number of ships loaded with âcargoâ had been sent by the ancestor of the
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or imitating the actions of colonists and military personnel. Most groups foretold the coming of a bounty of Western goods or money as part of their prophecy, although this was not a universal feature of such movements, with other prophets telling their followers to abandon Western goods.
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reform; in this model, cargo cults are a misunderstanding of the systems involved in resource distribution, and an attempt to acquire such goods in the wake of interrupted trade. However, many of these practitioners actually focus on the importance of sustaining and creating new
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native for the benefit of the natives of a particular village or area. But the white man, being very cunning, knows how to intercept these ships and takes the âcargoâ for his own use. . . By his very nature the New Guinea native is peculiarly susceptible to these âcultsâ
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field (such as politics and economics) that gives it meaning. She states that people experience change as dramatic and complete, rather than as gradual and evolutionary. This sense of a dramatic break is expressed through cargo cult ideology.
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forces used their foreknowledge of local cargo cult beliefs, intentionally misrepresenting themselves as the ancestors of the Melanesians and distributing goods freely in order to acquire compliance and labor. Later the
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3084:. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
2414:
2153:on the island of Tanna, which worships
866:
660:Political and Legal Anthropology Review
120:
3237:. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.
3193:My Friends, The New Guinea Headhunters
3054:. London: Basil Blackwell. p. 48.
2461:Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology
316:Societies without hierarchical leaders
57:providing more context for the reader
21:the Wiktionary entry for "cargo cult"
7:
3314:, London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1957.
3282:Tabani, Marc & Abong, Marcelin.
3263:Southwestern Journal of Anthropology
3247:. Manchester University Press, 1964.
2955:"On The Trail of the Cargo Cultists"
1088:Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants
3371:A chapter named "Cargo Cult" is in
2868:Lindstrom, Lamont (31 March 2019).
2455:Lindstrom, Lamont (29 March 2018).
2163:based on Pentecost island (Vanuatu)
1940:, while in other movements, strict
1908:were typically characterized by a "
740:for followersâa worldview known as
3279:. Paris: Editions de la MSH, 2008.
2953:Inder, Stuart (1 September 1960).
2928:"They Still Believe in Cargo Cult"
2332: â Novel by Christopher Moore
1218:Archaeology of religion and ritual
798:in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
757:Origin of the term and definitions
14:
2703:Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique
2660:Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique
634:Political economy in anthropology
2366:(cargo cults used as a metaphor)
2169:cargo cult on Papua New Guinea (
2155:Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
874:
36:
3212:. New York: Random House, 1974.
2959:XXXI(2) Pacific Islands Monthly
2856:Parliament of a Thousand Tribes
2829:XVII(4) Pacific Islands Monthly
2329:Island of the Sequined Love Nun
931:Evolutionary origin of religion
3124:. University of Hawaii Press.
2932:XX(10) Pacific Islands Monthly
2874:. University of Hawaii Press.
2378: â New religious movement
2324: â 1980 film by Jamie Uys
2143:cult on Tanna Island (Vanuatu)
2037:in the years during and after
1086:Treatise on the Apparitions of
855:Causes, beliefs, and practices
496:Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
1:
3293:, in: F. Trenkenschuh (ed.),
2021:Pacific cults of World War II
1536:Traditional African religions
1081:Coral Gardens and Their Magic
667:Journal of Legal Anthropology
335:The Art of Not Being Governed
3200:Anutu Conquers in New Guinea
3195:. Doubleday & Co., 1964.
2555:. New York: Schocken books.
1944:policies were implemented.
25:Cargo cult (disambiguation)
3461:
3397:The Happy Isles of Oceania
3080:Lindstrom, Lamont (1993).
2825:"How "Cargo-Cult" is Born"
2572:. ANU Press. p. 180.
847:, nativistic, vitalistic,
673:Journal of Law and Society
393:Colonialism and resistance
91:A ceremonial cross of the
18:
3050:Burridge, Kenelm (1969).
2858:, Heinemann, London, 1965
2711:10.1515/9780824840440-002
2668:10.1515/9780824840440-013
2384: â political theatre
2340: â television series
1614:Armenian Apostolic Church
347:Non-western state systems
323:African Political Systems
3305:The invention of culture
2740:Lawrence, Peter (1971).
2263:Discourse on cargo cults
2198:Theoretical explanations
1506:Native American religion
1161:Revitalization movements
1016:Sacredâprofane dichotomy
868:Anthropology of religion
732:presence of charismatic
3445:New religious movements
3379:, Penguin Books, 1983.
3219:vol. xxvii no. 4, 1957.
3202:. Wartburg Press, 1957.
3095:Jarvis, Brooke (2019).
2984:Pacific Islands Monthly
2551:Worsley, Peter (1957).
2208:revitalization movement
2117:Hahalis Welfare Society
2060:In the late 1930s, the
2009:as well, including the
1420:The Journal of Religion
1041:Theories about religion
808:The Trumpet Shall Sound
764:Pacific Islands Monthly
372:and the State in Africa
3265:, vol. 14 no. 3, 1958.
3222:Jebens, Holger (ed.).
3130:10.2307/j.ctv9zcktq.12
2880:10.2307/j.ctv9zcktq.10
2521:10.3167/sa.2009.530106
2354:Cargo cult programming
2321:The Gods Must Be Crazy
2151:Prince Philip Movement
2030:
2003:Francis Edgar Williams
1466:Alaska Native religion
1461:Afro-American religion
1056:Veneration of the dead
817:
780:
614:Circumscription theory
401:Europe and the People
370:Technology, Tradition,
104:
23:. For other uses, see
16:New religious movement
3342:Richard Martin-Jordan
3191:Butcher, Benjamin T.
3009:10.2307/j.ctv9zcktq.7
2612:10.2307/j.ctv9zcktq.7
2337:Meet the Natives: USA
2204:Anthony F. C. Wallace
2028:
1867:cultural anthropology
1486:Chinese folk religion
1378:Anthony F. C. Wallace
1373:Daniel Martin Varisco
1298:E. E. Evans-Pritchard
1200:of the Religious Life
688:cultural anthropology
476:E. E. Evans-Pritchard
329:Papuan Big man system
90:
3198:Frerichs, Albert C.
2080:Postwar developments
2064:movement emerged on
2035:Melanesian islanders
1521:Shamanism in Siberia
1368:Edward Burnett Tylor
1198:The Elementary Forms
966:Magic (supernatural)
916:Comparative religion
481:Wolfgang Fikentscher
456:Henri J. M. Claessen
211:Pantribal sodalities
99:, New Hebrides (now
3323:Scientific American
3295:An Asmat Sketchbook
3250:Lindstrom, Lamont.
3097:"Who Is John Frum?"
2397:Prosperity theology
2190:on Papua New Guinea
1703:Hindu denominations
1644:Ethiopian Orthodoxy
1413:The Hibbert Journal
1323:Claude LĂ©vi-Strauss
1308:Fustel de Coulanges
862:Part of a series on
624:Leftâright paradigm
53:improve the article
3373:David Attenborough
2831:. 18 November 1946
2360:Cargo cult science
2031:
2007:western New Guinea
1757:Non-denominational
1669:Oriental Orthodoxy
1223:Poles in mythology
956:Laying on of hands
788:Territory of Papua
619:Legal anthropology
521:Thomas Blom Hansen
451:Robert L. Carneiro
240:Segmentary lineage
177:Leveling mechanism
127:legal anthropology
105:
3348:'s cult at Tanna.
3317:Worsley, Peter. "
3289:Trenkenschuh, F.
3272:. ANU Press, 2021
3168:978-2-9563981-2-7
3139:978-0-8248-7895-5
3107:on 18 April 2019.
3018:978-0-8248-1526-4
2889:978-0-8248-7895-5
2720:978-0-8248-4044-0
2677:978-0-8248-4044-0
2621:978-0-8248-1526-4
2127:and John Teosin.
2102:sympathetic magic
1977:First occurrences
1901:
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1689:Russian Orthodoxy
1639:Eastern Orthodoxy
1288:Arnold van Gennep
1207:Purity and Danger
722:
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446:Jeremy Boissevain
431:Georges Balandier
426:E. Adamson Hoebel
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3310:Worsley, Peter.
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3429:Categories
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