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- Author: Sergei Kan
- Publisher: University of Washington Press
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 416
- ISBN: 9780295806280
- ISBN-10: 0295806281
- ISBN-13: 9780295806280
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
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Description
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 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.
- Author: Sergei Kan
- Publisher: University of Washington Press
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 416
- ISBN: 9780295806280
- ISBN-10: 0295806281
- ISBN-13: 9780295806280
- Format: ePub
- Language: English 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 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.
Reviews