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

Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780295995144)

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

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

$105.00
Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition by Kan, Sergei

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

$105.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.馥x') 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
ISBN-10: 0295995149
ISBN-13: 9780295995144
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Language: English
Published: 12/22/2015
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d
By Sergei Kan
By Sergei Kan
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Sergei Kan is professor of anthropology and Native American studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries and A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country: Vincent Soboleff in Alaska, and editor of Sharing Our Knowledge: The Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors.

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