Author: Otto, Ton ; & Borsboom, Ad ; editors:
Title: Cultural Dynamics of Religious Change in Oceania
Description: Leiden, KITLV Press, 1997. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, viii,144 pp. Series: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 176.. Minor rubbing. VG,. ¶ Papers presented during the First European Colloquium on Pacific Studies held at the University of Nijmegen, Dec. 17-20, 1992. Contents: Traditions of transformation: travelling rituals in Australia / Thomas Widlok -- Changing feasts: church day as transformation of vasái / Elisabetta Gnecchi-Ruscone -- Catholics, Seventh-Day Adventists and the impact of traition in Pairundu (Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea) / Holger Jebens -- Magic, missionaries and religion: some observations from the Trobriand Islands / Gunter Senft -- A cargo cult among the Maenge / Michel Panoff -- Ethnographic perceptions of cargo: fragments of an intermittent discourse / Sjoerd R. Jaarsma -- Kastom versus cargo cult: emotional discourse on the Yali movement in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea / Elfriede Hermann.

Keywords: Anthropology of Religion, Oceania, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Sociology, Ethnography, Melanesian, ,