Symbolic Immortality

The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition

Nonfiction, History, Americas, Native American, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, United States
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Author: Sergei Kan ISBN: 9780295806280
Publisher: University of Washington Press Publication: December 23, 2015
Imprint: University of Washington Press Language: English
Author: Sergei Kan
ISBN: 9780295806280
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication: December 23, 2015
Imprint: University of Washington Press
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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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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