Symbolic Immortality
Subtitle: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: Sep 23, 2015
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780295994895
Description: Decades after its initial publication, Symbolic Immortality retains its status as the most comprehensive analysis of the mortuary practices of the Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska-or any other indigenous culture of the Northwest Coast. This updated and expanded edition furthers our understanding of the potlatch (koo.ex') as a total social phenomenon, with emotional and religious as well as economic and sociopolitical dimensions. The result is a major contribution to both Northwest Coast ethnology and theoretical literature on the anthropology of death.
Notes: Source title: Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century (Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment)