Description

Harcover, russet cloth bodly lettered in silver on spine, in price-clipped dust-jacket. 296pp., Brief Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 2-color line frontispiece, 16 half-tone photographsic plates and 5 line illustrations in the text. First British edition. This copy from the Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. Library with their stamp on title-page and in lower margin of page 101, as well as on top edge of bulked sheets,, no other marks. An important and early anthropoliogical study of a little known phenomenon. The title is taken from the given name of a native New Guinean who started the cargo cult, circa 1935. Similar to other messianic movements, Burridge’s first hand account is a scholarly examination of the religious, political, and economic aspects which make up the cult. A clean, square, unmarked copy [but for Harcourt stamps mentioned above]. Dust-jacket chipped and worn overall. A very good copy in a good dust-jacket.