Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium - Princeton Legacy Library - Kenelm Burridge - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691602196 - July 14, 2014
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Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium - Princeton Legacy Library Revised edition

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Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians had long believed that the sign of the millennium would be the arrival of their ancestors in ships bearing lavish material goods, and they interpreted the advent of European vessels as the fulfillmen


346 pages, 29 illus. 5 maps and diagrams

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released July 14, 2014
ISBN13 9780691602196
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 346
Dimensions 127 × 203 × 18 mm   ·   482 g
Language English  

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