Cargo Cult as Theater: Political Performance in the Pacific

by Dorothy K. Billings

Why did half the people on New Hanover, a small island north of New Guinea, vote for Lyndon Baines Johnson to be their ruler in 1964? Dorothy K. Billings believes that this sort of action--seen in New Guinea and other parts of Melanesia--is part of the "cargo cult" phenomenon, or micronationalist movements which are principally regarded as responses to European colonialism. Based on thirty-five years of fieldwork and observation, Cargo Cult as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739102389
• ISBN13: 9780739102381
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"