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Who is not captivated by tales of Islanders earnestly scanning their watery horizons for great fleets of cargo ships bringing rice, radios and refrigerators - s
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Cargo cults have long exerted a remarkable attraction on Westerners, and the last decade has seen the publication of much new work on the subject. This collecti
Dancing Spirit, Love, and War
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Contemporary Religiosities
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The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and rel