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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809607103321

Autore

Kan Sergei

Titolo

Symbolic Immortality : The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition / / Sergei Kan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , [2015]

©[2015]

ISBN

0-295-80628-1

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Collana

Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment

Disciplina

979.8004/9727

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Funeral customs and rites - Northwest Coast of North America

Potlatch - Northwest Coast of North America

Tlingit Indians - Funeral customs and rites

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Chapter Five. Cosmology, Eschatology, and the Nature of DeathChapter 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; Glossary; References



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