What is "cargo cults"

Usage examples of "cargo cults".

I told Benito about the Cargo Cults, amusing him greatly, and only later realized what had brought them to mind.

Although historically there was a problem when one of the Melanesian cargo cults voted in a case of Wrigley's spearmint gum.

Consider the case of Yali- Born in (approximately) 1912, Yali was undoubtedly the secret leader of the Cargo Cults in the late 1940s and mid-l950s.

Observers recalled the last-century spread of the cargo cults when describing the wave of hysteria that has swept the country.

The sect, linked to the cargo cults which were once a mainstay of island life, doused their clothes and bodies with gasoline and set fire to themselves in the main boarding area of Port Moresby's Somare Airport.

Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise -- a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats.