Description
This volume offers information on how, for 50 years, the bush Kaliai in Melanesia have worked the deserted cargo left by US Marines during World War II into their indigenous culture. The author seeks to show how cargo cults in general bring together past, present and future.
Author: Linda Gordon
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 11/15/1990
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.72d
ISBN13: 9780299126643
ISBN10: 0299126641
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
Author: Linda Gordon
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 11/15/1990
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.72d
ISBN13: 9780299126643
ISBN10: 0299126641
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
About the Author
Linda Gordon is the Florence Kelley Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among her many publications are Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America and Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, Boston 1880-1960.