Table des matières

Marc Tabani

Chapter 1. What’s the Matter with Cargo Cults Today?

• Complex Movements in Contemporary Melanesian Anthropology
• The Continuity of John Frum Beliefs and Practices
• Persisting Divergence in the Use of a Classic Label
• Cargo Cult Terminologies
• Classifying Melanesian Movements Today
• Kago, Kastom, Kalja
• Kastom Movements, Globalization and Nation States

Doug Dalton

Chapter 2. Between “Cargo” and “Cult”

• Cargoist Returns
• “Cargoism” and the Trouble with “Cargo Cult”
• The Sociology of Knowledge and Knowledge of Sociology between “Cargo” and “Cult”
• Diversity, Uncertainty and Culture
• Living, Killing and Dying in the Multi-verse
• Seeing and Being in the Worlds of Rawa Culture
• Acknowledgments

Marcellin Abong

Chapter 3. Metamorphoses of Nagriamel

• Introduction
• Beginnings and Structure
• Why Ambae?
• Nagriamel and Vemarana on the International Scene
• Nagriamel’s Foreign Relations
• The Road Towards Independence and the Drama of Rebellion
• Nagriamel Today and Tomorrow
• Conclusion

Aletta Biersack

Chapter 4. Beyond “Cargo Cult”: Interpreting Mata Kamo

• Introduction to the Cult of Ain
• The Cult in the Porgera Valley
• The Cult in the Paiela Valley
• Lewambo’s Story
• Kau’s Story
• The Case for Millenarianism
• Wealth and the Sky Motif
• The Meaning of the Sky
• Madness’s Reason
• Conclusions
• Coda
• Acknowledgments

Martha Macintyre

Chapter 5. Instant Wealth: Visions of the Future on Lihir, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

• TKA/Nimamar
• Cargo Cults
• Society Reform
• Personal Viability

Elfriede Hermann

Chapter 6. The Yali Movement of Papua New Guinea: the Dialogics of Representation

• Early exogenous perspectives I: colonial representations
• Early exogenous perspectives II: anthropological representations
• Indigenous representations I: how Yali’s work is seen by his home village
• Indigenous representations II: how Yali’s work is seen by the Dabsau Association
• Conclusion: linking the exogenous and indigenous perspectives
• Acknowledgments

Lamont Lindstrom

Chapter 7. Even More Strange Stories of Desire: Cargo Cult in Popular Media

• Cargo Cult for Beginners
• Bad Cargo Cults
• Good Cargo Cults
• Cargo Cult for Sale

Margaret Jolly

Epilogue. Agreeing to Disagree about Kago

• The Dialectics of Matter and Spirit, Nature and Culture
• The Dialogics of Insiders and Outsiders: Mimetic Resistance
• Engendering Modernity, Masculinity and the Millenium

Biographies