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Like fire : the Paliau movement and millenarianism in Melanesia /

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. Drawi...

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Main Authors: Schwartz, Theodore (Author), Smith, Michael French (Author)
Corporate Authors: JSTOR (Organization), Australian National University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Acton, ACT : ANU Press, 2021.
Series:Monographs in anthropology series.
Subjects:
Maloat, Paliau.
Cargo cults > Papua New Guinea > Manus Province.
Cargo cults > Melanesia.
Millennialism > Papua New Guinea > Manus Province.
Millennialism > Melanesia.
Political culture > Papua New Guinea > Manus Province.
Christianity > Papua New Guinea > Manus Province.
Manus Province (Papua New Guinea) > Politics and government.
Admiralty Islands (Papua New Guinea) > Religion.
Nativistic movements > Melanesia.
Melanesia > Religious life and customs.
Melanesia > Social life and customs.
Cargo cults.
Christianity.
Manners and customs.
Millennialism.
Nativistic movements.
Political culture.
Politics and government.
Religion.
Melanesia.
Papua New Guinea > Admiralty Islands.
Papua New Guinea > Manus Province.
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