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cargo cult
名詞
Wiktionary英語版
出典：Wiktionary
cargo cult
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2026/02/14 22:50 UTC 版)
語源
From cargo (“Western material goods”) + cult. First used in print by N. M. Bird in an article in 1945.
名詞
cargo cult (plural cargo cults)
- Any of several religious movements among the people of Melanesia that anticipate the arrival of material cargo or cultural restoration, typically through the ritual imitation of the activities of colonial or technological cultures.
- (figuratively, also attributive) Any of several philosophies, practices or pseudosciences that are not rooted in experiment, often characterized by an unreflected and ritualistic approach.
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cargo cult science
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cargo cult software engineering
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2019 May 2, Nellie Bowles, “Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley”, in New York Times:
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派生語
- cargo culting
- cargo cult science
参考
参照
- ^ Norris Mervyn Bird (November 1945), “Is there a danger of a post-war flare-up among New Guinea natives?”, in Pacific Island Monthly, volume 16, number 4, Sidney: Pacific Publications, →OCLC, page 69:
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Stemming directly from religious teaching of equality and its resulting sense of injustice, is what is generally known as “Vailala Madness” or “Cargo Cult.” […] A native, infected with the disorder, states that he has been visited by a relative long dead, who stated that a great number of ships loaded with “cargo” had been sent by the ancestor of the native for the benefit of the natives […]
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