Dorothy K Billings: 1 book
Cargo Cult as Theater
Political Performance in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2002
Why did half the people on New Hanover, a small island north of New Guinea, vote for Lyndon Baines Johnson to be their ruler in 1964? Dorothy K. Billings believes that this sort of action_seen in New Guinea and other parts of Melanesia_is part of the 'cargo cult' phenomenon, or micronationalist movements...
