Max Wohlwill (4 results)
Language: English
Published by University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Qld 1979
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First English Language Edition. xv, 215pp, index, notes, bibliography, appendices, bw ills, diagrams. Or brown cloth boards in jacket. Very light foxing to endpapers. Collects many accounts of native's belief and interpretation of western knowledge which led to…the rise of the cargo cult in the South Pacific. Briefly looks specifically at West and East Irian Jaya, Papua, Sepik, Madang, Morobe, New Guinea Highlands, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, New hebrides, New Caledonia and Fiji. There follows an extensive analyissi of cargo cults, and reflections on ways of understanding them. The real significance of cargo cults as a response to the invasion of an alien, powerful civilization is revealed in this valuable study first published in German in 1971. Size: 8vo.
Melanesian Cargo Cults: New Salvation Movements in the South Pacific
Friedrich Steinbauer [1934-2003]; Max Wohlwill [1905-1991] [Translator]
Language: English
Published by University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia. QLD. AUST 1979
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. xv, 215pp., b/w illustrations, tables, appendices, bibliography, notes, index. First English translation of the German title originally published in 1971. Age toned text block. Lightly dusted top edge else clean and bright. Dustjacket slightly rubbed.(BH) 12/2025….
Language: English
Published by University of Queensland Press (UQP), Brisbane 1979
- Hardcover
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1st English ed. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white text-photos & figures, map, minor edgewear jacket (faint foxing reverse side, top edge reverse side toned), edges foxed & little rubbed, pages lightly toned, light foxing some pages. 213 pp. Friedrich Steinbauer details how the m…aterial goods of Christian missionaries became part of spiritual salvation for some Melanesians. In this fascinating book, the German missionary has collected many records of native beliefs and their interpretation of Western knowledge. The original German edition has now been carefully edited and translated by Dr Max Wohlwill who, after spending time in Papua New Guinea, wanted to share this seminal study with English readers.
Published by Univeristy of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1979
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketBoards. 1st English language edition. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp xv 215, Index, b/w plates. Gift inscription front free endpaper. Very good condition in like d.j. Study of the effect of missionaries upon Melanesian culture and their views upon politics and religion. translated by Max Wohlwill (illustrator).
