Symbolic immortality : the Tlingit potlatch of the nineteenth century / Sergei Kan

Author: Kan, Sergei
Additional Titles: Tlingit potlatch of the nineteenth century
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]
Edition: Second edition.
Physical Description: xvi, 394 pages ; 23 cm

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Contents

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Outline of the Mortuary Rites -- pt. ONE THE PERSON AND THE SOCIAL ORDER -- ch. Two The "Outside" and the "Inside": The Tlingit View of the Human Being -- ch. Three Shagoon and the Social Person: The Cultural Ideal -- ch. Four The Aristocrat as the Ideal Person -- pt. TWO THE FUNERAL -- ch. Five Cosmology, Eschatology, and the Nature of Death -- ch. Six The Deceased, the Mourners, and the Opposites: Actors in the Ritual Drama -- ch. Seven Grief, Mourning, and the Politics of the Funeral -- pt. THREE THE POTLATCH -- ch. Eight The Potlatch as a Mortuary Ritual -- ch. Nine Competition and Cooperation, Hierarchy and Equality -- pt. FOUR DEATH IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA AND BEYOND -- ch. Ten The Tlingit Mortuary Complex: A Comparative Perspective.

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9780295995144 hardcover alkaline paper
0295995149 hardcover alkaline paper
9780295994895 paperback alkaline paper
0295994894 paperback alkaline paper

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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