Cargo cults

GPTKB entity

Statements (32)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:religious_organization
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Fiji
gptkb:Papua_New_Guinea
gptkb:Solomon_Islands
gptkb:Vanuatu
gptkbp:coreBelief material wealth delivered by spiritual means
gptkbp:emergedIn Melanesia
gptkbp:flourishedDuring late 19th and early 20th centuries
gptkbp:followedBy Melanesian islanders
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Cargo cults
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:World_War_II
contact with Western colonizers
gptkbp:notableExample gptkb:Prince_Philip_Movement
gptkb:John_Frum_movement
gptkb:Tuka_Movement
gptkb:Vailala_Madness
gptkbp:often_involve charismatic leaders
gptkbp:relatedConcept syncretism
anthropology of religion
millenarianism
gptkbp:rituals building airstrips
military-style parades
mock radio towers
gptkbp:sometimes_involve expectation of social transformation
prophecies of return of ancestors
gptkbp:studiedBy gptkb:Lamont_Lindstrom
gptkb:Peter_Worsley
anthropologists
gptkbp:term_coined_in 1940s
gptkbp:term_refers_to belief in arrival of goods (cargo) from supernatural sources
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Tanna,_Vanuatu
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5