Coming to shore
Subtitle: Northwest Coast ethnology, traditions, and visions
By: edited by Marie Mauzé, Michael E. Harkin, and Sergei Kan
Contributors: Mauzé, Marie; Harkin, Michael Eugene, 1958-; Kan, Sergei; NetLibrary, Inc
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 508
Subjects: Social life and customs; Ethnology; Congresses; Indians of North America; Applied anthropology; History
Notes: Papers presented at the Northwest Coast Ethnology Conference held in Paris, France in June 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-496) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Reflections on Northwest Coast ethnology / Claude Lévi-Strauss; title: Text, symbol, and tradition in Northwest Coast ethnology from Franz Boas to Claude Lévi-Strauss / Regna Darnell; title: Becoming an anthropologist : my debt to European and other scholars who influenced me / Frederica de Laguna; title: Crossing boundaries : homage to Frederica de Laguna / Marie-Françoise Guédon; title: When the Northwest Coast haunts French anthropology : a discrete but lasting presence / Marie Mauzé; title: Structuralism at the University of British Columbia, 1969 onward / Pierre Maranda; title: Lévi-Straussian structuralism on the Northwest Coast / Marjorie Myers Halpin; title: Asdiwal : surveying the ethnographic ground / Margaret Seguin Anderson; title: "Some mysterious means of fortune" : a look at North Pacific Coast oral history / Judith Berman; title: The audible light in the eyes : in honor of Claude Lévi-Strauss / Robert Bringhurst; title: Voices of one's life / Martine J. Reid and Daisy Sewid-Smith; title: "It's only half a mile from savagery to civilization" : American tourists and the southeastern Alaska natives in the late 19th century / Sergei Kan; title: "A magic place" : the Northwest Coast Indian Hall at the American Museum of Natural History / Ira Jacknis; title: Evolving concepts of Tlingit identity and clan / Richard and Nora Marks Dauenhauer; title: The intention of tradition : contemporary contexts and contests of the hamat'sa dance / Aaron Glass; title: Rereading the ethnographic record : the problem of justice in the Coast Salish world / Bruce G. Miller; title: Whither the expert witness : anthropology in the post-Delgamuukw courtroom / Daniel L. Boxberger; title: "Defining ourselves through baskets" : museum autoethnography and the Makah Cultural and Research Center / Patricia Pierce Erikson; title: The geography of Tlingit character / Thomas F. Thornton; title: Thirteen ways of looking at a landscape / Michael E. Harkin; title: Contemporary Makah whaling / Janine Bowechop.