Mambu: a melanesian millennium
Auteur :
Burridge, Kenelm
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691602196
Date de publication :
14 juil. 2014
Dimensions :
20,3 x 12,7 cm
Poids :
482 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians had long believed that the sign of the millennium would be the arrival of their ancestors in ships bearing lavish material goods, and they interpreted the advent of European vessels as the fulfillmen