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Popular Uprisings in the Philippines, 1840–1940. By David R. Sturtevant. Cornell University Press: Ithaca and London, 1976. Pp. 317. £12.25.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Victor T. King
Victor T. King
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Dept of Sociology and Social AnthropologyUniversity of Hull
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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , February 1978 , pp. 168 - 172
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References

1 Sturtevant, David R., Agrarian Unrest in the Philippines, Ohio University Center for International Studies, Southeast Asia Series, No. 8 (Athens, Ohio, 1969).Google Scholar

2 This term is taken from Anthony, F. C. Wallace, ‘Revitalization Movements’, American Anthropologist, Vol. 58 (1956), pp. 264–81, and is defined as a ‘deliberate, organized, conscious effort by members of a society to construct a more satisfying culture’ (p. 265).Google Scholar

3 Other writers before him have also emphasized this process of cultural contact and disruption. See, for example, Firth, Raymond, Elements of Social Organization (C. A. Watts: London, 1951), p. 113;Google ScholarWorsley, P., The Trumpet Shall Sound. A Study of ‘Cargo’ Cults in Melanesia (Paladin, 2nd ed., 1970), p. 256;Google ScholarInglis, J., ‘Cargo Cults: The Problem of Explanation’, Oceania, Vol. 27 (1957), pp. 249–63CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and ‘Interpretation of Cargo Cults—Comments’, Oceania, Vol. 30 (1959), pp. 155–8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 See van der Kroef, J., ‘Javanese Messianic Expectations. Their Origin and Cultural Context’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. I (1959), pp. 299–323;CrossRefGoogle ScholarThrupp, S. L. (ed.), Millennial Dreams in Action: Essays in Comparative Study (Mouton: The Hague, and Humanities Press: New York, 1962), p. 26.Google Scholar