カーゴカルト

noun

cargo cult

Refers to the Melanesian belief system in which ritual practices are performed in the hope of attracting material wealth delivered by supernatural means, often modeled after Western cargo shipments.

• カーゴカルトは、太たい平へい洋よう戦せん争そう後ごにメラネシアで見みられた信しん仰こうの一いち形けい態たいだ。

  Cargo cults are a form of belief that appeared in Melanesia after the Pacific War.

• 人じん類るい学がく者しゃはカーゴカルトの儀ぎ式しきを詳くわしく調ちょう査さした。

  Anthropologists studied the rituals of cargo cults in detail.