num_pages: 320
description: This volume offers information on how, for 50 years, the bush Kaliai in Melanesia have worked the deserted cargo left by US Marines during World War II into their indigenous culture. The author seeks to show how cargo cults in general bring together past, present and future.
language: English
title: Cultures Of Secrecy: Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults
titlecomplete: Cultures Of Secrecy: Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults (New Directions in Anthropological Writing)
genres: Religion
ratings_count: 3
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press