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Symbolic Immortality - The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition

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Informationen zum Autor Sergei Kan Klappentext Sergei Kan is professor of anthropology and Native American studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries and A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country: Vincent Soboleff in Alaska , and editor of Sharing Our Knowledge: The Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors . Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Tlingit Alphabet Tlingit Technical Sound Chart Map of Southeast Alaska, the Land of the Coastal Tlingits Introduction 1. Outline of the Mortuary Rites Part One | The Person and the Social Order 2. The "Outside" and the "Inside": The Tlingit View of the Human Being 3. Shagóon and the Social Person: The Cultural Ideal 4. The Aristocrat as the Ideal Person Part Two | The Funeral 5. Cosmology, Eschatology, and the Nature of Death 6. The Deceased, the Mourners, and the Opposites: Actors in the Ritual Drama 7. Grief, Mourning, and the Politics of the Funeral Part Three | The Potlatch 8. The Potlatch as a Mortuary Ritual 9. Competition and Cooperation, Hierarchy and Equality Part Four | Death in Northwestern North America and Beyond 10. The Tlingit Mortuary Complex: A Comparative Perspective Conclusion: The Tlingit Mortuary Complex and the Anthropology of Death Epilogue Notes Glossary References Index

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Authors Sergei Kan
Publisher University Of Washington Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.10.2015
 
EAN 9780295994895
ISBN 978-0-295-99489-5
No. of pages 277
Series Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endow
Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endow
Symbolic Immortality
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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