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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.
2001:-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 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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2194:The Peli association on Papua New Guinea
2084:drilling, flags and poles, and flowers".
1410:Anthropological Perspectives on Religion
834:described the term as follows: "A cargo
3095:. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
2425:
2164:on the island of Tanna, which worships
877:
671:Political and Legal Anthropology Review
131:
3256:. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.
3212:My Friends, The New Guinea Headhunters
3065:. London: Basil Blackwell. p. 48.
2472:Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology
327:Societies without hierarchical leaders
68:providing more context for the reader
32:the Wiktionary entry for "cargo cult"
7:
3333:, London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1957.
3301:Tabani, Marc & Abong, Marcelin.
3282:Southwestern Journal of Anthropology
3266:. Manchester University Press, 1964.
2966:"On The Trail of the Cargo Cultists"
1099:Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants
3390:A chapter named "Cargo Cult" is in
2879:Lindstrom, Lamont (31 March 2019).
2466:Lindstrom, Lamont (29 March 2018).
2174:based on Pentecost island (Vanuatu)
1951:, while in other movements, strict
1919:were typically characterized by a "
751:for followersâa worldview known as
3298:. Paris: Editions de la MSH, 2008.
2964:Inder, Stuart (1 September 1960).
2939:"They Still Believe in Cargo Cult"
2343: â Novel by Christopher Moore
1229:Archaeology of religion and ritual
809:in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
768:Origin of the term and definitions
25:
2714:Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique
2671:Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique
645:Political economy in anthropology
2377:(cargo cults used as a metaphor)
2180:cargo cult on Papua New Guinea (
2166:Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
885:
47:
3231:. New York: Random House, 1974.
2970:XXXI(2) Pacific Islands Monthly
2867:Parliament of a Thousand Tribes
2840:XVII(4) Pacific Islands Monthly
2340:Island of the Sequined Love Nun
942:Evolutionary origin of religion
3135:. University of Hawaii Press.
2943:XX(10) Pacific Islands Monthly
2885:. University of Hawaii Press.
2389: â New religious movement
2335: â 1980 film by Jamie Uys
2154:cult on Tanna Island (Vanuatu)
2048:in the years during and after
1097:Treatise on the Apparitions of
866:Causes, beliefs, and practices
507:Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
1:
3312:, in: F. Trenkenschuh (ed.),
2032:Pacific cults of World War II
1547:Traditional African religions
1092:Coral Gardens and Their Magic
678:Journal of Legal Anthropology
346:The Art of Not Being Governed
3219:Anutu Conquers in New Guinea
3214:. Doubleday & Co., 1964.
2566:. New York: Schocken books.
1955:policies were implemented.
36:Cargo cult (disambiguation)
3480:
3416:The Happy Isles of Oceania
3091:Lindstrom, Lamont (1993).
2836:"How "Cargo-Cult" is Born"
2583:. ANU Press. p. 180.
858:, nativistic, vitalistic,
684:Journal of Law and Society
404:Colonialism and resistance
102:A ceremonial cross of the
29:
3061:Burridge, Kenelm (1969).
2869:, Heinemann, London, 1965
2722:10.1515/9780824840440-002
2679:10.1515/9780824840440-013
2395: â political theatre
2351: â television series
1625:Armenian Apostolic Church
358:Non-western state systems
334:African Political Systems
3324:The invention of culture
2751:Lawrence, Peter (1971).
2274:Discourse on cargo cults
2209:Theoretical explanations
1517:Native American religion
1172:Revitalization movements
1027:Sacredâprofane dichotomy
879:Anthropology of religion
743:presence of charismatic
3464:New religious movements
3398:, Penguin Books, 1983.
3238:vol. xxvii no. 4, 1957.
3221:. Wartburg Press, 1957.
3106:Jarvis, Brooke (2019).
2995:Pacific Islands Monthly
2562:Worsley, Peter (1957).
2219:revitalization movement
2128:Hahalis Welfare Society
2071:In the late 1930s, the
2020:as well, including the
1431:The Journal of Religion
1052:Theories about religion
819:The Trumpet Shall Sound
775:Pacific Islands Monthly
383:and the State in Africa
3284:, vol. 14 no. 3, 1958.
3241:Jebens, Holger (ed.).
3141:10.2307/j.ctv9zcktq.12
2891:10.2307/j.ctv9zcktq.10
2532:10.3167/sa.2009.530106
2365:Cargo cult programming
2332:The Gods Must Be Crazy
2162:Prince Philip Movement
2041:
2014:Francis Edgar Williams
1477:Alaska Native religion
1472:Afro-American religion
1067:Veneration of the dead
828:
791:
625:Circumscription theory
412:Europe and the People
381:Technology, Tradition,
115:
34:. For other uses, see
27:New religious movement
3361:Richard Martin-Jordan
3210:Butcher, Benjamin T.
3020:10.2307/j.ctv9zcktq.7
2623:10.2307/j.ctv9zcktq.7
2348:Meet the Natives: USA
2215:Anthony F. C. Wallace
2039:
1878:cultural anthropology
1497:Chinese folk religion
1389:Anthony F. C. Wallace
1384:Daniel Martin Varisco
1309:E. E. Evans-Pritchard
1211:of the Religious Life
699:cultural anthropology
487:E. E. Evans-Pritchard
340:Papuan Big man system
101:
3217:Frerichs, Albert C.
2091:Postwar developments
2075:movement emerged on
2046:Melanesian islanders
1532:Shamanism in Siberia
1379:Edward Burnett Tylor
1209:The Elementary Forms
977:Magic (supernatural)
927:Comparative religion
492:Wolfgang Fikentscher
467:Henri J. M. Claessen
222:Pantribal sodalities
110:, New Hebrides (now
3342:Scientific American
3314:An Asmat Sketchbook
3269:Lindstrom, Lamont.
3108:"Who Is John Frum?"
2408:Prosperity theology
2201:on Papua New Guinea
1714:Hindu denominations
1655:Ethiopian Orthodoxy
1424:The Hibbert Journal
1334:Claude LĂ©vi-Strauss
1319:Fustel de Coulanges
873:Part of a series on
635:Leftâright paradigm
64:improve the article
3392:David Attenborough
2842:. 18 November 1946
2371:Cargo cult science
2042:
2018:western New Guinea
1768:Non-denominational
1680:Oriental Orthodoxy
1234:Poles in mythology
967:Laying on of hands
799:Territory of Papua
630:Legal anthropology
532:Thomas Blom Hansen
462:Robert L. Carneiro
251:Segmentary lineage
188:Leveling mechanism
138:legal anthropology
116:
3367:'s cult at Tanna.
3336:Worsley, Peter. "
3308:Trenkenschuh, F.
3291:. ANU Press, 2021
3187:978-2-9563981-2-7
3150:978-0-8248-7895-5
3118:on 18 April 2019.
3029:978-0-8248-1526-4
2900:978-0-8248-7895-5
2731:978-0-8248-4044-0
2688:978-0-8248-4044-0
2632:978-0-8248-1526-4
2138:and John Teosin.
2113:sympathetic magic
1988:First occurrences
1912:
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1650:Eastern Orthodoxy
1299:Arnold van Gennep
1218:Purity and Danger
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457:Jeremy Boissevain
442:Georges Balandier
437:E. Adamson Hoebel
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3329:Worsley, Peter.
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3247:Culture Critique
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