Word: pocus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magic formula, they can, without working, acquire all the wealth and possessions that seem concentrated in the white world. Officials are forever trying to explain how the world uses labor, capital and raw materials to acquire its "cargo," but that is all so much hocus-pocus to the tribesmen. As Sydney University Anthropologist Peter Lawrence notes, "They can't conceive of a factory where goods are manufactured. They believe that everything has a deity who has to be contacted through ritual," and who only then will deliver the cargo...
People down at City Hall, he continued, talk about the problem all the time, but it's all "only razzle-dazzle and hocus-pocus. I want to do something, " he said...