Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology, 103) Paperback - 2014
by Burridge, Kenelm
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- Title Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology, 103)
- Author Burridge, Kenelm
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 346
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Date 2014-07-14
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0691602190.G
- ISBN 9780691602196 / 0691602190
- Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.72 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.83 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 299.92
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From the rear cover
"This is a book not just about cargo cults or even about millenarianism generally but about the ways humans strive to make sense of the most wrenching kinds of upheavals in their lives. What sets Mambu apart from the array of other works on these cults is Burridge's philosophical--one might almost say existentialist--perspective. No less fully than others does he describe in detail the political and especially the social conditions that undeniably spurred the emergence of the cults. But he is distinctive in focusing on the consequences of those political and social upheavals for the world view of the Melanesians."--Robert Segal, Lancaster University