Re: Re: Marvel Mystery Oil

Posted by What is Cargo Cult? Martin (IN) on April 15, 2002 at 12:55:26 from (156.144.107.21):

In Reply to: Re: Marvel Mystery Oil posted by Cargocult on April 15, 2002 at 12:34:41:

This is what I found :

Cargo Cults : Cargo cults are usually revivalist, and in some cases messianic and millenarian, movements found among certain peoples indigenous to Oceania. The word cargo refers to foreign goods possessed by Europeans; cult adherents believe that such goods belong to themselves and that, with the help of ancestral spirits, the goods can be returned to them through magico-religious means. Some cult prophets promise that the arrival of cargo will herald a period of prosperity and well-being.
Such movements represent the efforts of local inhabitants to cope with problems arising from contact with foreign cultures acculturation. They first appeared during the late 19th century among Papua New Guinea and other Oceanic peoples impressed by the abundance of material wealth they saw. The Papuan Vailala Madness of 1919 had iconoclastic elements; like some of the cults, it reflected the merging of Christian missionary teachings with indigenous mythological beliefs. The movements received new impetus during World War II. In a Irian Jaya (western New Guinea) cult of 1942, entire villages were organized into an imitation army, with officers and dummy equipment, in the hope that this would be transformed into real equipment. Followers of John Frum on Tanna (Vanuatu, former, New Hebrides) built landing strips and warehouses in anticipation of the arrival of air cargo. All such movements draw on traditional custom, experience, and ideology. Essentially, they are attempts to fill the gap between new wants and the available means of satisfying them. The movements, some of which are politically oriented, demonstrate a people's resilience and imagination in coping with new and difficult problems

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