Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century - Couverture souple

Kan, Sergei

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0295994894 ISBN 13 : 9780295994895

Editeur : University of Washington Press, 2015

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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 (University of Washington Press, 1999).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0295994894
• ISBN 13: 9780295994895
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 416
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• Personne responsable: non disponible