Symbolic immortality
Subtitle: the Tlingit potlatch of the nineteenth century
By: Sergei Kan.
Series: Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
Subjects: Tlingit Indians -- Funeral customs and rites; Potlatch -- Northwest Coast of North America; Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites -- Northwest Coast of North America
Description: This study of the potlatch or memorial feast of the Tlingit Indian peoples of southeast Alaska gives a detailed account of the anthropology of death and ritual in this region in the nineteenth century.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 357-384.
Includes index.