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Cargo cult, the Glossary

Cargo cult is a term used to denote various spiritual and political movements that arose among indigenous Melanesians following Western colonisation of the region in the late 19th century.^[1]

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Agency (sociology)

In social science, agency is the capacity of individuals to have the power and resources to fulfill their potential.

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Airdrop

An airdrop is a type of airlift in which items including weapons, equipment, humanitarian aid or leaflets are delivered by military or civilian aircraft without their landing.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Anthony F. C. Wallace

Anthony Francis Clarke Wallace (April 15, 1923 – October 5, 2015) was a Canadian-American anthropologist who specialized in Native American cultures, especially the Iroquois.

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Asmat Regency

Asmat Regency is a regency (kabupaten) in the northwestern portion of the Indonesian province of South Papua.

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Big man (anthropology)

A big man is a highly influential individual in a tribe, especially in Melanesia and Polynesia.

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Buka Island

Buka Island is the second-largest island in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Cargo cult (disambiguation)

A cargo cult is a type of a ritualistic belief system.

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Celibacy

Celibacy (from Latin caelibatus) is the state of voluntarily being unmarried, sexually abstinent, or both, usually for religious reasons.

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Consumerism is a social and economic order in which the aspirations of many individuals include the acquisition of goods and services beyond those necessary for survival or traditional displays of status.

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Dani people

The Dani (also spelled Ndani) are an ethnic group from the Central Highlands of Western New Guinea in Baliem Valley, Highland Papua, Indonesia.

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David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is a British broadcaster, biologist, natural historian, and writer.

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Ecstatic dance

Ecstatic dance is a form of dance in which the dancers, sometimes without the need to follow specific steps, release themselves to the rhythm and move freely as the music takes them, leading to trance and a feeling of ecstasy.

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Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.

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Exogamy

Exogamy is the social norm of mating or marrying outside one's social group.

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F. E. Williams

Francis Edgar Williams (9 February 1893 – 12 May 1943) was an Australian anthropologist who worked for the government of the Territory of Papua from 1922 to 1942.

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Fiji

Fiji (Viti,; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Francis Hagai

Francis Hagai (c. 1940 – 7 July 1974) was the leader of the Hahalis Welfare Society (HWS) on Buka Island, in what is now the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. Cargo cult and Francis Hagai are cargo cults.

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God Is American

God is American (Dieu est américain) is a 2007 French documentary film written, directed and produced by Richard Martin-Jordan. Cargo cult and God Is American are cargo cults.

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Hahalis Welfare Society

The Hahalis Welfare Society was a nativist movement on Buka Island in what is now the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. Cargo cult and Hahalis Welfare Society are cargo cults.

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Headphones

Headphones are a pair of small loudspeaker drivers worn on or around the head over a user's ears.

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Ian Hogbin

Dr Herbert Ian Priestley Hogbin (17 December 1904 – 2 August 1989) was a British-born Australian anthropologist.

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Incest

Incest is human sexual activity between family members or close relatives.

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John Frum

John Frum (also called Jon Frum, John Brum, and John Prum) is a figure associated with cargo cults on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. Cargo cult and John Frum are cargo cults.

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Kava

Kava or kava kava (Piper methysticum: Latin 'pepper' and Latinized Greek 'intoxicating') is a crop of the Pacific Islands.

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Kenelm Burridge

Kenelm Oswald Lancelot Burridge (October 31, 1922 – May 21, 2019) was a Maltese-born Canadian anthropologist.

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Lucy Mair

Lucy Philip Mair (28 January 1901 – 1 April 1986) was a British anthropologist.

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Madang Province

Madang is a province of Papua New Guinea.

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Mana (Oceanian cultures)

In Melanesian and Polynesian cultures, mana is a supernatural force that permeates the universe.

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Manus Island

Manus Island is part of Manus Province in northern Papua New Guinea and is the largest of the Admiralty Islands.

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Martha Kaplan

Martha Kaplan is a cultural anthropologist who has written a number of articles and books from her research conducted in Fiji, India, and Singapore.

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Marvin Harris

Marvin Harris (August 18, 1927 – October 25, 2001) was an American anthropologist.

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Melanesia

Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Melanesians

Melanesians are the predominant and indigenous inhabitants of Melanesia, in an area stretching from New Guinea to the Fiji Islands.

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Messiah

In Abrahamic religions, a messiah or messias is a saviour or liberator of a group of people.

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Millenarianism

Millenarianism or millenarism is the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming fundamental transformation of society, after which "all things will be changed".

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Millenarianism in colonial societies

Millenarianism is the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming fundamental transformation of society, after which "all things will be changed". Cargo cult and Millenarianism in colonial societies are Millenarianism and new religious movements.

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Mondo Cane

Mondo Cane (a mild Italian profanity, literally) is a 1962 Italian mondo documentary film and directed by the trio of Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara, and Franco E. Prosperi, with narration by Stefano Sibaldi.

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Pacific Islands Monthly

Pacific Islands Monthly, commonly referred to as "PIM", was a magazine founded in 1930 in Sydney by New Zealand born journalist R.W. Robson.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).

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Paul Theroux

Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue The Great Railway Bazaar (1975).

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Peter Lawrence (anthropologist)

Peter Lawrence (1921 – 21 December 1987) was a British-born Australian anthropologist and pioneer in the study of Melanesian religions.

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Peter Worsley

Peter Maurice Worsley (6 May 1924 – 15 March 2013) was a noted British sociologist and social anthropologist.

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Plantation

Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on.

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Poll tax

A poll tax, also known as head tax or capitation, is a tax levied as a fixed sum on every liable individual (typically every adult), without reference to income or resources.

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Pomio Kivung

The Pomio Kivung movement ("Meeting") is a millenarian movement sometimes called a cargo cult practiced among the villagers in the Baining and Pomio areas in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Cargo cult and Pomio Kivung are cargo cults, Millenarianism and new religious movements.

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Prince Philip movement

The Prince Philip movement is a religious sect followed by the Kastom people around the villages of Yaohnanen and Yakel on the southern island of Tanna in Vanuatu. Cargo cult and Prince Philip movement are cargo cults.

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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 19219 April 2021), was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Prophet

In religion, a prophet or prophetess is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

Also known as Cargo Cults, Cargo cul, Cargo culting, Cargo cultist, Cargo cultists, Cargo-cult, Cargoism, Phantom cargo.

, Revitalization movement, Revivalist (person), Richard Dawkins, Roy Wagner, Runway, Self-determination, Sociological classifications of religious movements, Sympathetic magic, Tanna (island), Territory of Papua, The God Delusion, The Happy Isles of Oceania, Turaga nation, Utopia, Vailala Madness, Vision (spirituality), Western New Guinea, World War II, Yali (politician).

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Cargo cults

Millenarianism

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