Like fire : the Paliau movement and millenarianism in Melanesia

Like fire : the Paliau movement and millenarianism in Melanesia / Theodore Schwartz and Michael French Smith.

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. Drawi...

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Main Authors: Schwartz, Theodore (Author), Smith, Michael French (Author)
Corporate Author: Australian National University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Acton, ACT : ANU Press, 2021.
Series:Monographs in anthropology series.
Subjects:
Maloat, Paliau.
Cargo cults > Papua New Guinea > Manus Province.
Cargo cults > Melanesia.
Millennialism > Papua New Guinea > Manus Province.
Millennialism > Melanesia.
Political culture > Papua New Guinea > Manus Province.
Christianity > Papua New Guinea > Manus Province.
Nativistic movements > Melanesia.
Cargo cults
Christianity
Manners and customs
Millennialism
Nativistic movements
Political culture
Politics and government
Religion
Manus Province (Papua New Guinea) > Politics and government.
Admiralty Islands (Papua New Guinea) > Religion.
Melanesia > Religious life and customs.
Melanesia > Social life and customs.
Melanesia
Papua New Guinea > Admiralty Islands
Papua New Guinea > Manus Province
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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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