Like Fire: The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia

by Michael French Smith and Theodore Schwartz

Like Fire chronicles an indigenous movement for radical change in Papua New Guinea from 1946 to the present. The movement's founder, Paliau Maloat, promoted a program for step-by-step social change in which many of his followers also found hope for a miraculous millenarian transformation. Drawing on data collected over several decades, Theodore Schwartz and Michael French Smith describe the movement's history, Paliau's transformation from secular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1760464244
• ISBN13: 9781760464240
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 562 Pages
• Weight: 2.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"