Like Fire : The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia
Like Fire chronicles an indigenous movement for radical change in Papua New Guinea from 1946 to the present. The movement's founder, Paliau Maloat, promoted a program for step-by-step social change in which many of his followers also found hope for a miraculous millenarian transformation. Drawi...
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Main Author: | French Smith, Michael (auth) |
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Other Authors: | Schwartz, Theodore (auth) |
Format: | Book Chapter |
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Canberra
ANU Press
2021
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