Mambu movement in the Sepik region

Record summary

The Mambu movement is reported in accounts of postwar religious innovation in the Sepik region, where Christian motifs, local ritual authority and expectations of social transformation were combined. It is relevant to this domain because it belongs to the wider family of movements interpreted through return, arrival and renewal narratives, yet the surviving descriptions are uneven and often filtered through colonial ethnographic categories. The name may cover more than one local manifestation. A researcher should establish the specific community, leader and date in each source before comparing it with better-documented Melanesian movements.