Analysis of the Cargo Cults
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The paper "Analysis of the Cargo Cults" tells that with various forms of cargo cults emerging in Melanesia, there are quite a few similarities borrowed from the native or traditional mythology of the Melanesian and are then extended to, perhaps, make sense of the new world.... ... ... ... The twofold advantages of the practices, as per Stephen, are that first, they can get over the fear that they have for their 'traditional repositories of sacred power' (Stephen 1997:334), and second that if they find their new practices to be futile, they can quickly revert entirely to their old beliefs with total conviction....