Author: Burridge, Kenelm
Title: Mambu : A Melanesian Millennium
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1995). Reprint. orig.wrappers. 22x14cm, (27),296,(12)p, PAPERBACK.. 12pp photoplates. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ An anthropological study of the cargo cults of Melanesia, active during the 1930s to 1950s. It explains how Melanesians mistook the advent of European vessels as a sign that their ancestors had returned from heaven, bearing lavish goods" - Publisher's description.

Keywords: Melanesian Ethnography, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Cargo Cults, History of Religion, Anthropology, Social Sociology, Acculturation,