Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond, Lamont Lindstrom's 1993 scholarly study from the University of Hawai'i Press, South Sea Books, is a scholarly history and critique of the cargo cult label itself: how the term was constructed by outside observers, its use across three generations of anthropological theory, and its later scholarly abandonment as a description of Melanesian religious movements. Its strength is that it reaches the fact's leading claim about the term's construction and abandonment directly. Its limit is that the fact's shorter material on sorcery practice is already covered elsewhere in the catalog under a separate source, and is not this book's own subject.
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Tier one: a scholarly history and critique from the University of Hawai'i Press of how the cargo cult label itself was constructed and later abandoned by anthropological theory, reaching that claim directly. Its limit is that the fact's separate material on sorcery practice is covered elsewhere in the catalog by a different source, not this book's own subject. NotesScholarly history and critique of the "cargo cult" label itself: how the term was constructed by outside observers, its use across three generations of anthropological theory, and its later scholarly abandonment as a description of Melanesian religious movements. Reaches the fact's leading claim; the fact's shorter sorcery material is already covered elsewhere in the catalog (16227).
Citation
AuthorLamont Lindstrom
PublisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press (South Sea Books)
Publication Year1993
URLhttps://www.jstor.org/content/oa_book_monograph/j.ctv9zcktq
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
- Culture Groups, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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