Being and Place Among the Tlingit (Culture, Place, and Nature)
Publisher: University of Washington Press; In association with Sealaska Heritage Institute
Published: November 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780295987491
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Social & cultural anthropology; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Anthropology - Cultural; General; Alaska; Cultural property; Names, Geographical; Social aspects; Social life and customs; Tlingit Indians
Description: "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.