{"product_id":"potlatch-at-gitsegukla-marjorie-m-halpin-9780774807449","title":"Potlatch at Gitsegukla: William Beynon's 1945 Field Notebooks","description":"William Beynon was born in 1888 in Victoria to a Welsh father and a Tsimshian mother. He was an accomplished ethnographer and had a long career documenting the traditions of the Tsimshian, Nisga'a, and Gitksan. In 1945 he attended and actively participated in five days of potlatches and totem pole raisings at Gitksan village of Gitsegukla. There he compiled four notebooks containing detailed and often verbatim information about the events he witnessed. For over 50 years these notebooks have seen limited circulation among specialists, who have long recognized them as the most perceptive and complete account of potlatching ever recorded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marjorie M. Halpin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 077480744X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780774807449\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of British Columbia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Marjorie M. Halpin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48438002647295,"sku":"9780774807449","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_01a202ef-e365-4b73-a2bd-6926f7b0207e.jpg?v=1777168135","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/potlatch-at-gitsegukla-marjorie-m-halpin-9780774807449","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}