Like Fire : The Paliau Movement And Millenarianism In Melanesia
SCHWARTZ Theodore / SMITH Michael French
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Like Fire chronicles an indigenous movement for radical change in Papua New Guinea from 1946 to the present. The movements 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. Drawing on data collected over several decades, Theodore Schwartz and Michael French Smith describe the movement's history, Paliau's transformation from secular reformer and politician to Melanesian Jesus, and the development of the current incarnation of the movement as Wind Nation, a fully millenarian endeavour. Their analysis casts doubt on common ways of understanding a characteristically Melan ...
Publication date: 2021-07-01
Publisher: ANU Press
Subjects:
Non-fiction, Pasifika, Pacific Cultures, Published in Australia, Papua New Guinea
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