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Like fire- [electronic resource : e-book] : the Paliau movement and millenarianism in Melanesia
Like fire- [electronic resource : e-book] : the Paliau movement and millenarianism in Melanesia
자료유형  
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ISBN  
9781760464257 (electronic bk.)
ISBN  
1760464252 (electronic bk.)
저자명  
Schwartz, Theodore,
서명/저자  
Like fire - [electronic resource : e-book] : the Paliau movement and millenarianism in Melanesia / Theodore Schwartz and Michael French Smith.
형태사항  
1 online resource (xx, 540 p.) : illustrations, maps
시리즈명  
Monographs in anthropology series
서지주기  
Includes bibliographical references and index.
초록/해제  
요약 : 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. Drawing on data collected over several decades, Theodore Schwartz and Michael French Smith describe the movement's history, Paliau's transformation from secular reformer and politician to Melanesian Jesus, and the development of the current incarnation of the movement as Wind Nation, a fully millenarian endeavour. Their analysis casts doubt on common ways of understanding a characteristically Melanesian form of millenarianism, the cargo cult, and questions widely accepted ways of interpreting millenarianism in general. They show that to understand the human proclivity for millenarianism we must scrutinise more closely two near-universal human tendencies: difficulty accepting the role of chance or impersonal forces in shaping events (that is, the tendency to personify causation), and a tendency to imagine that one or one's group is the focus of the malign or benign attention of purposeful entities, from the local to the cosmic. Schwartz and Smith discuss the prevalence of millenarianism and warn against romanticising it, because the millenarian mind can subvert rationality and nourish rage and fear even as it seeks transcendence.--From publisher's website.
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Mode of access : World Wide Web
기타 저자  
Smith, Michael French
기타 저자  
Australian National University Press.
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