Editing Cargo cult (section)

=== First occurrences ===
Discussions of cargo cults usually begin with a series of movements that occurred in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.<ref name="PIM1946-11">{{cite web| work= XVII(4) Pacific Islands Monthly |title= How "Cargo-Cult" is Born|date =18 November 1946|url= https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-316133697/view?partId=nla.obj-316170445#page/n16/mode/1up| access-date=29 September 2021}}</ref> The earliest recorded movement that has been described as a "cargo cult" was the Tuka Movement that began in [[Fiji]] in 1885 at the height of the colonial era's [[plantation]]-style economy. The movement began with a promised return to a golden age of ancestral potency. Minor alterations to priestly practices were undertaken to update them and attempt to recover some kind of ancestral efficacy. Colonial authorities saw the leader of the movement, Tuka, as a troublemaker, and he was exiled, although their attempts to stop him returning proved fruitless.<ref name="Worsley-1957"/>{{rp|17-31}}

Cargo cults occurred periodically in many parts of the island of New Guinea, including the Taro Cult in northern [[Papua New Guinea]] and the [[Vailala Madness]] that arose from 1919 to 1922.<ref name="PIM1946-11"/><ref name="White-1965"/>{{rp|114}} The last was documented by [[Francis Edgar Williams]], one of the first anthropologists to conduct fieldwork in Papua New Guinea. Less dramatic cargo cults have appeared in [[western New Guinea]] as well, including the [[Asmat Regency|Asmat]] and [[Dani people|Dani]] areas.