Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)
An anthropological study of nineteenth-century Tlingit potlatch and mortuary practice, tracing ritual, symbol, and social order.
anthropologyIndigenous peoplesritualmortuary practiceNorthwest Coast
Work Information
Mortuary ritual becomes a key to social symbolism.
Confirmed as the 1989 Smithsonian Institution Press edition; the first-edition identifier is retained as the primary book identifier.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Inst Pr
- Published
- 1989-09-01
- Pages
- 390 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16.51 x 3.81 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780874746860
- ISBN-10
- 0874746868
- Price
- 14224 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Anthropology
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