Symbolic immortality : the Tlingit potlatch of the nineteenth century

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Label

Symbolic immortality : the Tlingit potlatch of the nineteenth century

Title remainder

the Tlingit potlatch of the nineteenth century

Statement of responsibility

Sergei Kan

Creator

• Kan, Sergei

Subject

• Potlatch -- Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amérique du Nord)
• Potlatch
• Tlingit
• Government publications -- United States
• Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites -- Northwest Coast of North America
• Tlingit (Indiens) -- Rites et cérémonies funéraires
• Tlingit Indians -- Funeral customs and rites
• Potlatch -- Northwest Coast of North America
• Geschichte 1800-1900
• Indiens d'Amérique -- Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amérique du Nord)

Genre

• Government publications

Language

eng

Summary

This study of the potlatch or memorial feast of the Tlingit Indian peoples of southeast Alaska gives a detailed account of the anthropology of death and ritual in this region in the nineteenth century

Member of

• Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

393/.08997

Government publication

federal national government publication

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E99.T6

LC item number

K34 1989

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry