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Cultures of Secrecy: Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults (review)

Cultures of Secrecy: Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults (review) 540 the contemporary pacific • fall 2000 vocative, these articles often over- flowed with novel insights and sug- gestive asides that had to be left unde- veloped or unsupported as Lattas pursued his main arguments. Because these pieces were stuffed full in this way, they gave the impression that Lattas’s thinking was unduly con- strained by the article form. This book has thus been long awaited as a forum in which Lattas’s writing could find its natural gait and his ideas could receive the full development they war- ranted. Even in the face of such high expectations, Cultures of Secrecy does not disappoint; compared to the arti- cles, the ethnography is richer here, the arguments more completely worked through, and the authorial voice, while still powerful, more relaxed and carefully modulated. These qualities combine to make the book, among other things, the most important full-scale study of a regional tradition of cargo cults to have appeared in many years. *** At the heart of the book is the important claim that in order for peo- Cultures of Secrecy: Reinventing ple to contemplate change they must Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults, by find a space outside their everyday Andrew http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Contemporary Pacific University of Hawai'I Press

Cultures of Secrecy: Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults (review)

The Contemporary Pacific , Volume 12 (2) – Jul 1, 2001

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University of Hawai'I Press
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Copyright © 2000 University of Hawai'i Press.
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1527-9464

Abstract

540 the contemporary pacific • fall 2000 vocative, these articles often over- flowed with novel insights and sug- gestive asides that had to be left unde- veloped or unsupported as Lattas pursued his main arguments. Because these pieces were stuffed full in this way, they gave the impression that Lattas’s thinking was unduly con- strained by the article form. This book has thus been long awaited as a forum in which Lattas’s writing could find its natural gait and his ideas could receive the full development they war- ranted. Even in the face of such high expectations, Cultures of Secrecy does not disappoint; compared to the arti- cles, the ethnography is richer here, the arguments more completely worked through, and the authorial voice, while still powerful, more relaxed and carefully modulated. These qualities combine to make the book, among other things, the most important full-scale study of a regional tradition of cargo cults to have appeared in many years. *** At the heart of the book is the important claim that in order for peo- Cultures of Secrecy: Reinventing ple to contemplate change they must Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults, by find a space outside their everyday Andrew

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The Contemporary PacificUniversity of Hawai'I Press

Published: Jul 1, 2001

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