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Neither cargo nor cult: ritual politics and the colonial imagination in Fiji. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. Lawrence, Peter. Road belong cargo: a study of the Cargo Movement in the Southern Madang District, New Guinea. Manchester University Press, 1964. Lindstrom, Lamont. Cargo cult: strange stories of desire from Melanesia and beyond ...
A ceremonial cross of the John Frum cargo cult, Tanna, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), 1967 A John Frum cargo cult ceremonial flag-raising. The religion centering on John Frum arose no later than the late 1930s, when Vanuatu was known as the New Hebrides. The religion may have originated as early as the 1910s, according to a claim in 1949. [2]
Burning Man is a week-long large-scale desert event focused on "community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance" held annually in the western United States. [1] [2] The event's name comes from its culminating ceremony: the symbolic burning of a large wooden effigy, referred to as the Man, that occurs on the penultimate night, the Saturday evening before Labor Day. [3]
Burning Man is supposed to be about "radical self-reliance" — no doubt, one reason Goodell, the CEO, chided government authorities for making "such a fuss" over the festival's predicament.
Burning Man began as a small, spontaneous act of catharsis in 1986, when Larry Harvey, a carpenter from San Francisco, gathered friends on the city’s Baker Beach to burn a wooden effigy, a ...
Since the end of World War II in 1945, the people of Tanna, a remote and isolated island in the south Pacific Ocean, worship an American prophet, John Frum.The islanders believe he is an American pilot that returned to the United States after the end of the world war, and will come back to Tanna with riches and valuable souvenirs from the United States that they call "the cargo".
This year's Burning Man began on Aug. 28 and was slated to run through Sept. 5, with tickets starting at $575 a person. However, shortly after the festival began this year, the area was flooded by ...
The 2019 edition of Burning Man would be the last (official) in-person Man until 2022. The effigy stood 61 feet tall with an intricate design.This was the first year without Burning Man co-founder ...