Cultures of Secrecy: Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults by Andrew Lattas

Cultures of Secrecy: Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults

New Directions in Anthropological Writing

Andrew Lattas

320 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction sociology informative medium-paced
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After driving the Japanese out of Papua New Guinea during World War II, the U.S. military left their gear—and the makings of a cargo cult—to the native Kaliai. Cultures of Secrecy offers a close look at how, for fifty years, the bush Kaliai in Mel...

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