Auteur: Kenelm Burridge

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 millenniu …

Examining the concept of individuality and the ideology of individualism in terms of a dialectic between the self and the social order, the author draws a distinction between the person as an identit …

Encountering Aborigines: A Case Study: Anthropology and the Australian Aboriginal details the concerns in contemporary anthropological research of aboriginal Australians. The title covers the various …