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Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition

Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition

Hardcover

Native American HistoryAnthropologyRegional: West

ISBN10: 0295995149
ISBN13: 9780295995144
Publisher: Univ Of Washington Pr
Published: Dec 22 2015
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.72
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Decades after its initial publication, Symbolic Immortality retains its status as the most comprehensive analysis of the mortuary practices of the Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska--or any other indigenous culture of the Northwest Coast. This updated and expanded edition furthers our understanding of the potlatch (koo.éex') as a total social phenomenon, with emotional and religious as well as economic and sociopolitical dimensions. The result is a major contribution to both Northwest Coast ethnology and theoretical literature on the anthropology of death.

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