| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- SYMBOLIC IMMORTALITY -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Tlingit Alphabet -- Tlingit Technical Sound Chart -- Map of Southeast Alaska, the Land of the Coastal Tlingits -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Outline of the Mortuary Rites -- PART ONE. THE PERSON AND THE SOCIAL ORDER -- Chapter Two. The "Outside" and the "Inside": The Tlingit View of the Human Being -- Chapter Three. Shagóon and the Social Person: The Cultural Ideal -- Chapter Four. The Aristocrat as the Ideal Person -- PART TWO. THE FUNERAL. |
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Chapter Five. Cosmology, Eschatology, and the Nature of Death -- Chapter Six. The Deceased, the Mourners, and the Opposites: Actors in the Ritual Drama -- Chapter Seven. Grief, Mourning, and the Politics of the Funeral -- PART THREE. THE POTLATCH -- Chapter Eight. The Potlatch as a Mortuary Ritual -- Chapter Nine. Competition and Cooperation, Hierarchy and Equality -- PART FOUR. DEATH IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA AND BEYOND -- Chapter Ten. The Tlingit Mortuary Complex: A Comparative Perspective -- Conclusion: The Tlingit Mortuary Complex and the Anthropology of Death -- Epilogue -- Notes. |
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Glossary -- References -- Index. |
| Summary |
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.ex') 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tlingit Indians -- Funeral customs and rites.
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Tlingit Indians. |
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Potlatch -- Northwest Coast of North America.
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Potlatch. |
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Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites -- Northwest Coast of North America.
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Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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North America -- Northwest Coast of North America. |
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Religionsethnologie. |
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Ethnopsychologie. |
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Politische Anthropologie. |
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Potlatch. |
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Ahnenkult. |
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Totenkult. |
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Eschatologie. |
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Tlingit. |
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Athapasken. |
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Tsimshian. |
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Sozialer Austausch. |
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Theoriendynamik. |
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Alaska. |
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Kanada. |
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HISTORY / Native American. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Tlingit potlatch of the nineteenth century |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Kan, Sergei. Symbolic immortality. Second edition 9780295995144 (DLC) 2015012081 (OCoLC)907621752 |
| ISBN |
9780295806280 (electronic book) |
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0295806281 (electronic book) |
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9780295995144 |
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0295995149 |
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9780295994895 |
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0295994894 |
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