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indigenous ideas of order, time, and transition in a New Guinea cargo movement 1
Author(s) -
ERRINGTON FREDERICK
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1974.1.2.02a00030
Subject(s) - indigenous , movement (music) , transition (genetics) , order (exchange) , new guinea , rest (music) , social movement , sociology , history , ethnology , political science , law , aesthetics , philosophy , politics , ecology , economics , physics , biochemistry , chemistry , finance , biology , acoustics , gene
The goals of a Duke of York Island cargo movement and the means by which these goals are to be realized rest on indigenous assumptions about social organization, ritual process, and time and transition. Much that seems bizarre and inexplicable about cargo movements to Western observers and anthropologists stems from the failure to understand adequately these non‐Western assumptions about reality.