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<p>Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians had long believed that the sign of the millennium would be the arrival of their ancestors in ships bearing lavish material goods, and they interpreted the advent of European vessels as the fulfillment of these expectations. As it became apparent that the Europeans meant to keep the goods and to colonize the people, scores of small-scale revolts
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- Author
- Burridge, Kenelm
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400851584
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Religion, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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