Being and place among the Tlingit / / Thomas F. Thornton

• Autore: Thornton Thomas F
• Pubblicazione: Seattle, : University of Washington Press; Juneau [Alaska], : In association with Sealaska Heritage Institute, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.897/270798
• Soggetto topico: Tlingit Indians - Social life and customs; Names, Geographical - Social aspects - Alaska; Cultural property - Alaska; Geographical perception - Alaska
• Soggetto geografico: Alaska Social life and customs
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Place and Tlingit senses of being -- Know your place : the social organization of geographic knowledge -- What's in a name? : place and cognition -- Production and place : "it was easy for me to put up fish there" -- Ritual as emplacement : the potlatch / ku.eex' -- Conclusion: Toward an anthropology of place.
• Sommario/riassunto: "In Being and Place among the Tlingit, place signifies a specific geographical location and also reveals the ways in which individuals and social groups define themselves. The notion of place consists of three dimensions - space, time, and experience - which are culturally and environmentally structured. Thomas Thornton examines each in detail to show how individual and collective Tlingit notions of place, being, and identity are formed. As he observes, despite cultural and environmental changes over time, particularly in the post-contact era since the late eighteenth century, Tlingits continue to bind themselves and their culture to places and landscapes in distinctive ways."--Jacket.
• Titolo autorizzato: Being and place among the Tlingit
• ISBN: 0-295-80040-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820047003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Culture, place, and nature.