Cargoism: Science, Desire and the Cargo Cults

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Natural Sciences, Science, Life Sciences, Social Sciences

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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During the Second World War, Melanesian islanders encountered the vast, commercial systems of Allied and Japanese forces. Cargo Cults sprang up in the wake of such contact, typified by deification and a ritualistic appeal to the impossible return of mater

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