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Title
Telephones, cameras and technology in West New Britain cargo cults
Author/Creator
Lattas, Andrew
Description
The A. explores the creative practices of cargo cult followers in the Kaliai bush of West New Britain. He focuses on how rural villagers reworked their experiences of meaning and sociality through their appropriations of western technology. In particular, bush Kaliai cult followers frequently used telephones and cameras in idiosyncratic ways that mapped out a new and redisclosed the spaces occupied by a racialised human existence. Through their novel use of western technology, cult followers struggled to resituate and overcome the new distances and cleavages of modernity by unearthing other ways of being white that came from their customary past and ancestral homelands.
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Oceania Vol. 70, Issue 4, p. 325-344
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http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/oceania/oceania1.htm
Date
2000
Publisher
Oceania Publications (University of Sydney)
Keyword(s)
creative practices;  cargo cult followers;  Kaliai bush;  West New Britain;  telephones;  cameras;  western technology
Resource Type
journal article
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/31852
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ISSN:0029-8077
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