11. Cargo and Cult: The Mimetic Critique of Capitalist Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Chapter 1. Introduction Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique 1
5. Part I: Against Cargo
6. 2. Cargo Cult at the Third Millennium 15
7. 3. Dissolving The Self-Other Dichotomy in Western “Cargo Cult” Constructions 36
8. 4. Neither Traditional nor Foreign: Dialogics of Power and Agency in Fijian History 59
9. Part II: Expanding The Framework
10. 5. Mutual Hopes: German Money and the Tree of Wealth in East Flores 79
11. 6. Violence and Millenarian Modernity in Eastern Indonesia 92
12. 7. Government, Church, and Millenarian Critique in the Imyan Tradition of the Religious (Papua/Irian Jaya, Indonesia) 117
13. Part III: Cargo as Lived Reality
14. 8. Encountering the Other: Millenarianism and the Permeability of Indigenous Domains in Melanesia and Australia 137
15. 9. Talking about Cargo Cults in Koimumu (West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea) 157
16. 10. From “Cult” to Religious Conviction: The Case for Making Cargo Personal 170
17. Part IV: Comparison and Critique
18. 11. Cargo and Cult: The Mimetic Critique of Capitalist Culture 187
19. 12. Work, Wealth, and Knowledge: Enigmas of Cargoist Identifications 209
20. 13. Thoughts on Hope and Cargo 227
21. 14. On the Critique in Cargo and the Cargo in Critique: Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Critical Practice 243
22. References 261
23. Contributors 283
24. Index 287