Symbolic Immortality : The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition / / Sergei Kan
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Kan Sergei
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| Titolo: |
Symbolic Immortality : The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition / / Sergei Kan
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| Pubblicazione: | Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , [2015] |
| ©[2015] | |
| Edizione: | Second edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (417 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 979.8004/9727 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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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| Titolo autorizzato: | Symbolic Immortality |
| ISBN: | 0-295-80628-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809607103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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