“Road belong
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cargo”
Peter Lawrence, author of “Road Belong Cargo”, is Pro fessor of Anthropology at the University of Queensland. The new paperback edition of his book (published by Melbourne University Press in April at $3.00) follows the original hard cover of 1964, with the excep tion of a brief preface in which he makes one or two corrections, and a two-page “Postscript for 1966”, which brings cargo cult development in the Madang area up-to-date. In the postscript he says that since 1958 many natives in southern Madang seem to have accepted develop ment as a potentially satis factory alternative to cargo cult.
The main problem is still how far progress is being impeded by a series of small but active cargo cults, or by diffuse cargo think ing.