The Metabolic Cargo Coat

The term appeared in 1945 at the end of the Pacific war. Anthropologists rapidly embraced the neo-glism to label melanization social movements that had come to their attention during the colonial era. A Southwest Pacific example of Messianic or millenarian movements was once common throughout the colonial world. The modal cargo coat was an agitation or organized social movement of melanasian villagers in pursuit of cargo by means of renewed or invented ritual action.

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