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Title: Critique, Vision and Cosmology: Millenarian Ideas in Melanesia
Authors: Hirsch, E
Keywords: cargo cults;millenarianism;critical practice;efficacy
Issue Date: 18-Nov-2024
Publisher: Wiley on behalf of University of Sydney
Citation: Hirsch, E. (2024) 'Critique, Vision and Cosmology: Millenarian Ideas in Melanesia', Oceania, 94 (3), pp. 184 - 201. doi: 10.1002/ocea.5414.
Abstract: An essential connection between critique and the millenarian has been proposed with particular reference to the study of Melanesian cargo cults. It is argued here that all critique is not necessarily millenarian. Rather, what is crucial for critique to have a millenarian form is for local cosmological ideas and practices to become transformed into the source of a new kind of future; a future that appears delimited by outside power relations (colonial, mission, capitalist) that now define what is possible. Often this involves altering local cosmological ideas of the outside (e.g. the dead) as the new source of future fecundity. The article considers two cases, among Fuyuge and Manus Islands peoples, where forms of critique and the millenarian have radically different outcomes.
URI: https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/30148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5414
ISSN: 0029-8077
Appears in Collections:Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers

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