Telephones, Cameras and Technology in West New Britain Cargo Cults

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2045985
AutoresAndrew Lattas (Newcastle University, autor correspondente)
Ano2000
Volume70
Fascículo4
Páginas325-344
Data de publicação2000-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoOceania (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0029-8077 • E-ISSN: 1834-4461
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/j.1834-4461.2000.tb03070.x
OpenAlexW2011028355
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas14

In this paper, I explore the creative practices of cargo cult followers in the Kaliai bush of West New Britain. I focus on how rural villagers reworked their experiences of meaning and sociality through their appropriations of western technology. In particular, bush Kaliai cult followers frequently used telephones and cameras in idiosyncratic ways that mapped out anew and redisclosed the spaces occupied by a racialised human existence. Through their novel use of western technology, cult followers struggled to resituate and overcome the new distances and cleavages of modernity by unearthing other ways of being white that came from their customary past and ancestral homelands

Ancient history · Cult · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Modernity · Political science · Sociality · Sociology · White (mutation · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy